Ava Chin

Ava Chin is a 5^th generation New Yorker, is the author of Mott Street,
a 2024 American Library Association Notable Book and a Best Book of
2023 by TIME, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus, Library Journal, and
Elle. Her first memoir Eating Wildly won the MFK Fisher Book Award for excellence in food writing. She
is the recipient of awards from the NY Public Library’s Cullman Center,
the Fulbright Program, NYFA, NY Institute for the Humanities, and the
Asian American Writer’s Workshop. Her writing has appeared in The New
York Times (“Urban Forager”), Washington Post, Los Angeles Times,
Village Voice, SPIN, and VIBE. She is Professor of Creative Nonfiction
at the College of Staten Island and the head of the CUNY Graduate
Center’s American Studies Certificate Program.