Ha Jin, who emigrated from China to attend Brandeis University in 1985, is the critically acclaimed author of five novels, three poetry collections, three short story collections, and a book of essays. Choosing to write in English rather than his native tongue, he gained attention with his first collection of short stories, Ocean of Words (Vintage, 1996), which earned him the Hemingway/PEN Award for First Fiction. In 1997, he won the Flannery O'Connor Award for his second collection of short stories, Under the Red Flag (University of Georgia Press, 1997). He received the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel Waiting  (Vintage, 2000) and the PEN/Faulkner Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his novel War Trash (Vintage, 2005). He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Currently, Ha Jin is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston University.
 
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