Christina Chiu is the winner of the James Alan McPherson Award for her novel Beauty. She is also author of Troublemaker and Other Saints, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in 2001. Troublemaker was alternate selection for BOMC and QPB, a nominee for a BOMC First Fiction Award, and winner of the Asian American Literary Award. Chiu has published in Tin House, Charlie Chan is Dead 2, Not the Only One, Washington Square, and others. She received her MFA from Columbia University. She curates and co-hosts the Pen Parentis Literary Salon. Currently, Chiu is working on her next novel.