2025 Annual McKinney Contest Guest Speaker: Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán)

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of The Family Chao, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of her first collection, Hunger, was recently reissued by W.W. Norton & Company. She is also the author of the novels All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and  Inheritance, which won the PEN Open Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Best American Short Stories. She's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. She has also received an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she teaches at and directs the famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the nation's first creative writing program. 

April 9th, 2025

7-9 PM   

Questions? Contact McKinney@rpi.edu