Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a collection of short fiction, Hunger, and three novels, Inheritance, and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost, and The Family Chao.

Her work has been translated into nine languages and has been chosen twice for The Best American Short Stories. She has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University, Princeton University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.