Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street, winner of the CALA Best Book Award and a PEN/Open Book Finalist, and Eating Wildly, winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Award for excellence in food writing. Mott Street, an ALA Notable Book and one of People magazine’s top books by Asian American authors, was a Best Book of the year by TIME, the San Francisco Chronicle, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews and Elle. Chin is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, NYFA, New York Institute for the Humanities, Asian American Writers’ Workshop and MacDowell. She is Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the City University of New York and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford. The Huff Post named her one of “9 Contemporary Authors You Should Be Reading.”

You can find her at avachin.com and on Instagram: @ava_chin

Top Titles

• Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal (2014)
• Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (2023)