Lan Samantha Chang's new novel, The Family Chao, will be published by W.W. Norton in February, 2022. She is the author of two previous novels, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and a story collection, Hunger. Sam is the director of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives with her husband and her 13-year-old daughter in Iowa City, Iowa. She describes writer-motherhood as "need more time."

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