Mei Chin (born 1977) is a fiction and food writer living in Dublin.
[1] Her short stories have appeared in Fiction and Bomb magazines and are characterized by a combination of the fantastic and the mundane.
[3][4] She is also the author of a number of books of literary criticism for Chelsea House Publishers, and she has taught food writing at Yale University.
[7] She is a native of Connecticut and a graduate of Hopkins School and Wesleyan University.
She won the James Beard Foundation's M. F. K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award in 2005 for "Eat Drink Mother Daughter,"[8][9] (a long article published in Saveur) and won two IACP Food Journalism Awards, in 2010 for her Saveur article "The Art of Kimchi" and in 2013 for her Gilt Taste article "Rhubarb's Ruby Submission.