

Stanley Professor of the Arts and Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.ĭuring the event, Samantha will read from her forthcoming novel, The Family Chao-an upended mystery that examines the impact the Iowan community and the Chao family have on each other, when pressures internal and external to the Chaos tragically collide.

She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she is Elizabeth M. Samantha’s short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, and The Best American Short Stories. She has received fellowships from the American Library in Paris, the Radcliffe Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She is the author of two previous novels, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and a story collection, Hunger. Lan Samantha Chang’s new novel, The Family Chao, will be published by W.W. As part of the Oxford Studies program, Emory University in Atlanta, GA will host Iowa Writers' Workshop Director, Lan Samantha Chang online on November 9 at 6:30 P.M.
