Chia-Chia Lin

Chia-Chia Lin is the author of the novels The Unpassing (2019) and Tether (forthcoming in May 2027). The Unpassing won the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.

Lin received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and a BA from Harvard College. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Times, and more. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.