Ploughshares Fall 2000

by Gish Jen (editor)

Contributors to this issue include: Ann Beattie, Moira Crone, Peter Ho Davies, Tom Drury, Carol Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Graver, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Bill Marx, Garry Mitchell, Sabina Murray, Pamela Painter, Jess Row, Esmeralda Santiago, Lysley A. Tenorio, Mark Winegardner

237 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2000

About the author

Gish Jen grew up in New York, where she spoke more Yiddish than Chinese. She has been featured in a PBS American Masters program on the American novel. Her distinctions also include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Fulbright fellowship, and a Radcliffe Institute fellowship. She was awarded a Lannan Literary Prize in 1999 and received a Harold and Mildred Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2003. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, she has published in the New Yorker and other magazines.

John Updike selected a story of Jen's for The Best American Short Stories of The Century. Her newest book, Tiger Writing, is based on the Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization, which she delivered at Harvard University in 2012.