Ling Ma was born in Sanming, China, and grew up in Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas. She is the author of Severance, which was published by FSG in 2018 and translated into five languages. Named a New York Times Notable Book, it received the Kirkus Prize, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was a finalist for the Pen / Hemingway Award. Her writings have appeared in Granta, Playboy, Vice, Ninth Letter, ACM, and others. She received her MFA from Cornell University and her AB from the University of Chicago. She lives in Chicago.

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