Mei Chin

Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin.

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

In the late 1990s she was an editor at ''Vogue'', and she has written reviews and essays for ''Gourmet'', ''Vogue'', ''Mirabella'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''Irish Times'', ''Sunday Times'', ''Irish Independent'', and other publications. She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers, and she has taught food writing at Yale University. Her essays have been anthologized in ''Best Food Writing'' 2004, 2006, and 2012. Since 2020 she has co-hosted a food podcast called Spice Bags, and with her co-hosts she published the book ''Soup'' in 2023.

She is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Hopkins School and Wesleyan University. Her mother, Professor Annping Chin teaches at Yale, and her late stepfather, Professor Jonathan Spence, taught there until he retired in 2008. Provided by Wikipedia