staff writer, The New Yorker
September 28, 2023 - 6:00pm
A Reading and Q&A
Branford College Common Room
74 High St.
About Jiayang Fan
Jiayang Fan is a staff writer for The New Yorker, to which she has contributed personal essays, cultural and political commentary, and food criticism (including a memorable essay on what makes disgusting foods disgusting). Fan was born in Chongqing and immigrated to the United States when she was seven. Her first book, a memoir called Motherland, will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.