Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of the novels Ms. Hempel Chronicles , a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and Madeleine Is Sleeping , a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the New Yorker , Ploughshares , Tin House , The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories . The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of "20...See more

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of the novels Ms. Hempel Chronicles , a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and Madeleine Is Sleeping , a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including the New Yorker , Ploughshares , Tin House , The Best American Short Stories, and the O. Henry Prize Stories . The recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of "20 Under 40" fiction writers by the New Yorker . She lives in Los Angeles. See less