Theresa Lin received her MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, where she was awarded the De Alba Fellowship for an excerpt of her novel manuscript and an Undergraduate Writing Program teaching fellowship. She received her BA in English Literature and Psychology from Rutgers University. At Rutgers, her writing was awarded the English Department Faculty Prize for best undergraduate literary essay as well as The Mitchell Adelman Scholarship for Creative Writing, the Edna Herzberg Prize in fiction, and the Evelyn Hamilton Prize in fiction. She is represented by Janklow & Nesbit and teaches at The Cooper Union. She has previously taught at Fordham, Rutgers, The Center for Fiction, and 92NY. Her writing has been featured in BOMB, LA Review of Books, Hyphen, Off Assignment, Witness, Oh Reader, Racquet, Storm Cellar, Truthout, Smart Set, and Random Sample Review, among others. She was a Bard College Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellow and a Convent Arts Fellow.