Book Focus with MFA Faculty, Kirstin Chen - Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen’s Counterfeit has been one of the most anticipated novels of 2022 and landed immediately on the NYT Bestseller List. Swift, surprising, and sharply comic, Counterfeit is a stylish and feminist caper with a strong point of view and an axe to grind. Peering behind the curtain of the upscale designer storefronts and the Chinese factories where luxury goods are produced, Kirstin Chen interrogates the myth of the model minority through two unforgettable women determined to demand more from life.
Join the Ashland University MFA faculty and guests for an event focusing on the processing of writing, agenting, editing and publishing of Counterfeit with author Kirstin Chen, her agent Michelle Brower (Founding Partner and Literary Agent at Trellis Literary Management), and the book’s editor Jessica Williams (Executive Editor at HarperCollins Publishers).
Wednesday, August 3, 3:30-5:00 PM EST, via Zoom.
More About our Kirstin Chen:
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Kirstin Chen's new novel,
Counterfeit, released June 2022 from William Morrow / HarperCollins (US) and The Borough Press (UK) landed immediately on the NYT Bestseller List. Her second novel,
Bury What We Cannot Take (Little A, March 2018)
, was named a best book of the year by
Entropy, Popsugar, and
Book Bub, and a top pick of the season by
Electric Literature, The Millions, The Rumpus, Harper’s Bazaar, and
InStyle. She is also the author of
Soy Sauce for Beginner. She has received fellowships from the Steinbeck Fellows Program, Sewanee, Hedgebrook, and Djerassi, among others. Born and raised in Singapore, she lives in San Francisco.
