Chia-Chia Lin is the author of the novels The Unpassing (FSG 2019) and Tether (forthcoming from FSG in May 2027). The Unpassing won the 2020 Clark Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. The book was also named a New York Times Book Review Editor's’ Choice and one of the best books of 2019 by The Washington Post, TIME, and Esquire. 

Lin received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The Paris Review, NewYorker.com, The New York Times, Zyzzyva, and more. 

Lin’s writing explores belonging, displacement, and the costs of staying and leaving. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she writes beside a colossal pile of snacks that is never quite big enough.