Ling Ma’s Continual State of Return. After foretelling the horrors of pandemic-era capitalism in her 2018 novel, Severance, Ma returns with a disquieting story collection for the subconscious.

Ling Ma breaks down her creative process and inspiration behind “Peking Duck,” a short story from her collection, "Bliss Montage." Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.

After Ling Ma got laid off from her office job, she decided to get her revenge by killing almost everyone in the world — in her debut novel, that is. Aug. 24, 2018.

Ma's writing, in short, stays with you whether you want it to or not. And, so, I felt reluctant, but compelled to pick up her new book, a collection of short stories called Bliss Montage. Sponsor ...

A year and a half before Covid-19 hit the U.S., Ma published her first novel, ‘Severance,’ about a pandemic first observed in China that paralyzes the world.

I don’t know if Ling Ma is an insomniac, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that she is. For the sleepless, the veil between consciousness and the realm of dreams is worn thin; waking life ...

Ling Ma’s own “Bliss Montage” is a surreal subversion of this trope. The women populating these stories are not merely at the center, they are the center.

Two Chicago-area residents were named 2024 MacArthur “genius grant” recipients on Tuesday. Ling Ma, a fiction writer, and Ebony G. Patterson, a visual artist, are part of the 22-member class.

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 ...