Belinda Tang, M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2021; M.A., Peking University, 2018; B.A. Stanford University, 2014

Belinda Huijuan Tang joins the Literature Department as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature. A novelist from San Jose, Calif., she is the author of A Map for the Missing, long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and one of NPR’s best books of 2022. She holds degrees from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Stanford University, and Peking University in Beijing. Her fiction has received the Truman Capote Fellowship, the Michener Copernicus Fellowship, and support from the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Institute and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.