Lisa Hsiao Chen is the author of Activities of Daily Living (W.W. Norton), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and Gotham Book Prize and long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. It was a Vogue and New Yorker Best Book of 2022 and a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2022. She wrote a book of poems, Mouth (Kaya Press) and contributed to the anthology Cybernetics, or Ghosts?: Stories From Myth to AI (Subtext Recordings). In 2025 she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant and in 2024, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. She has also received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Center for Fiction, Art Omi, Blue Mountain Center, and Vermont Studio Center. Born in Taipei, she now lives in New York City.
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