[8][9] A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University (NYU) and New York Feminist Art Institute (NYFA) Artist Fellow, Chou's Pushcart Prize-winning short fiction has been published in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, The Atlantic and elsewhere.
As a writing and workshop instructor, she has taught fiction at NYU, the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, Catapult, the Accent Society, Kundiman and Tin House.
The novel was optioned by Apple TV+ the same month it was released, and a film adaption was announced on September 27, 2022; Chou is writing the screenplay.
Chou was shortlisted afterwards for the Thurber Prize for American Humor and Young Lions Fiction Award.
[citation needed] Her multi-genre short story collection Where Are You Really From is forthcoming from Penguin Press.