Mei Chin

Mei Chin is a fiction writer and food critic living in New York City.

Her short stories have appeared in and Bomb Magazine and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane.

She won the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2005 for "Eat Drink Mother Daughter," a long article published in Saveur . She also writes about food for . Her essays have been anthologized in Best Food Writing 2005 and 2006.

From 1998-1999 she was an editor at Vogue Magazine and has written reviews and essays for Vogue, Mirabella, the New York Times Book Review, and other publications. She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers.

She is a native of Connecticut and graduate of Hopkins School and Wesleyan University. Her mother is Professor Annping Chin and her stepfather Professor Jonathan Spence, both at Yale.