Fei Sun’s fiction has received Ploughshares’s Alice Hoffman Prize for Fiction, Pleiades’s Kinder-Crump Award for Short Fiction, and Mississippi Review’s Fiction Prize. Her short stories have also appeared in Ruminate, Five Points, Oyster River Pages, Southern Humanities Review, and Wigleaf. Born and raised in Shanghai, she first came to the U.S. for school, and studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She then pursued a PhD in the same discipline, though she left in the third year to try writing. Subsequently, she received her MFA from Northwestern University. She is currently at work on a novel. When she is not writing, she likes to crochet and play board games with her husband and daughter.