Fiction
Leslie Epstein
Ha Jin
Allegra Goodman
Poetry
Robert Pinsky
David Ferry
Louise Glück
Derek Walcott
(also Playwriting)
Rosanna Warren
Playwriting
Kate Snodgrass
Richard Schotter
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Ha Jin - Fiction
As a graduate of the Creative Writing Program, Ha Jin has returned
in September of 2002 as a full professor. Born in China in 1956, Xuefei
Jin (Ha Jin is his pen name) was a teenager when China entered the
Cultural Revolution. He became a member of the People’s Liberation
Army at the age of fourteen. His novel Waiting, which won him
the National Book Award in 1999, and the PEN/ Faulkner in 2000, was based on his experiences during
his five-year service in the Red Army. He was awarded the PEN/ Faulkner again in 2005 for War Trash.
Ha Jin earned his Master’s Degree at Shandong University in
China, and in 1986 came to the United States to begin his doctoral
work at Brandeis. He was accepted into Boston University’s Creative
Writing Program in 1991 and completed his studies in 1994. Though
a native of China, he has done his writing in English.
In addition to the National Book award, Ha Jin received the Pen/Hemingway
award for his first collection of short stories, Ocean of Words,
and the Flannery O’Connor prize for his second, Under the
Red Flag. In 2005 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
His latest book is A Free Life. Before returning to
Boston University Jin had taught poetry, fiction and English Literature
at Emory University.
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