Ling Ma joins Windham-Campbell Prizes director Michael Kelleher to talk about tuning into the same frequency as Rachel Ingalls, crying on airplanes, and what it means to write about human-cryptid romance.
READING LIST:
Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
Times Like These by Rachel Ingalls
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
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Ling Ma is a writer hailing from Fujian, Utah, and Kansas. She wrote the novel Severance and the story collection Bliss Montage, both published by FSG. Her work has received the Kirkus Prize, a Whiting Award, an NEA fellowship, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Both titles have been named to the NY Times Notable Books of the Year and her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta, and more. She has taught creative writing and English at Cornell University and the University of Chicago, where she currently serves as an assistant professor of practice. She lives in Chicago with her family.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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