Chen, Chia

Chia Chen was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. In 1987 she came to Amierica to study and obtained a BA in Creative Writing from Queens College. "Among The 36 Strategies, Running Away is the Top One" is her first novel. This book was inspired by her first return-home trip in 1994. She set the stories in her hometown Hangzhou, a beautiful city known as the "Paradise on Earth" to the Chinese. She lives in her second hometown New York. She is a freelance fiction writer and is working on her second book.