Elaine Hsieh Chou

Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Chou is best known for the debut novel Disorientation (2022), a satire about a Taiwanese American PhD student pulled into a campus mystery, which was shortlisted for the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Young Lions Fiction Award. Chou's short story collection, Where Are You Really From, is also a satirical work of literary fiction.