She lives in Chicago.Ling Ma’s debut, Severance, blazed across the literary landscape when it was published to wide acclaim in 2018. She has taught creative writing and English at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. Prior to graduate school she worked as a journalist and editor. She received her MFA from Cornell University.
Ling was born in Sanming, China, and grew up in Utah and Kansas.
To me, it was a very gleeful short story but there was also this undercurrent of anger and I tried to source that anger back to its origin which had to do with work, which had to do with capitalism.”
just thinking about how the buildings might stop working, and how the public transit might slow down, and how people would have to stop working. In an interview with NPR, Ling was asked how a story about the apocalypse became a story about capitalism: “This novel started as an apocalyptic sort of short story and I had a lot of fun sort of just knocking things over, destroying things. Her fellowships include a Whiting Award, and an NEA creative writing fellowship. Ling’s fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Granta, Playboy, Vice, Chicago Reader, Ninth Letter, Buzzfeed, and more. Named a New York Times Notable Book and an NPR Best Book of 2018, it has been translated into seven languages. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed debut novel Severance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018), described as a “meticulous, caustic description of life in big cities and what happens when a terrible pandemic slowly annihilates most of the human population.” Severance won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.
Ling Ma's most recent book is Bliss Montage: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022), which was named a National Indie Bestseller, a New Yorker Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.
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