Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the collection "Hunger" and the novel, "Inheritance". She has won the California Book Award and the Bay Area Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. She has taught fiction writing at Stanford, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She is currently Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard University.