The women in novelist Ling Ma’s universe are always finding themselves either on the run (escaping pandemic-savaged New York, chasing down former lovers, fleeing into otherworldly portals ...

Novelist Ling Ma doesn’t shy away from taking risks with her writing. Her 2018 debut novel, “Severance,” is an apocalyptic satire that won the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and squarely put her ...

I dissent. In “Peking Duck,” one of the standout stories in Ling Ma’s collection, “Bliss Montage,” a young writer presents an early copy of her new book to her mother. It’s a story ...

Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel, Severance, imagined a world ravaged by the sudden onset of something called "Shen Fever" — a fictitious infection that originated in Southern China. By early spring ...

BLISS MONTAGE: Stories, by Ling Ma In her 1993 book “A Woman’s View,” the film historian Jeanine Basinger observed a peculiar phenomenon in early Hollywood movies about women: They almost ...

Nobody had a normal pandemic. But Ling Ma’s was weirder than most. A year and a half before Covid-19 hit the U.S., Ma published her first novel, “Severance.” The book told the story of ...

John Henry Fuseli’s The Nightmare, 1794. (Photo by Universal History Archive / Getty Images) I don’t know if Ling Ma is an insomniac, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that she is.

Donation Options Search Search Search Ling Ma, a fiction writer, (Left)and Ebony G. Patterson, a visual artist, are among the 22 people named MacArthur Fellows on Tuesday. MacArthur Foundation ...

Ling Ma, AB’05, an award-winning University of Chicago fiction writer renowned for prose that highlights the similarities between the fantastical and the everyday, has been awarded a 2024 MacArthur ...