It's pronounced "Shay Chow"

She/Her

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Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Her debut novel DISORIENTATION (Penguin Press / Picador) was a New York Times Editors' Choice Book, NPR Best Book of 2022, NYPL Young Lions Finalist and Thurber Prize for American Humor Finalist. The novel was optioned by AppleTV+ the same month it was released with Elaine set to adapt.

 

A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at NYU and NYFA Artist Fellow, her Pushcart Award-winning short fiction appears in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares, The Atlantic and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2023 Fred R. Brown Literary Award. As a writing and workshop instructor, she has taught fiction for NYU, The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, Catapult, Accent Society, Kundiman and Tin House.

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Her multi-genre short story collection WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM is forthcoming from Penguin Press in 2025.

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Elaine was a 2023 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow; her selected pilot GET HOME SAFE is an hour-long dark comedy thriller. Her half-hour comedy adapted from her short story, BANANA TREE GHOST, was optioned by Legendary Entertainment following a three-way bidding war. She was recently named a 2024 Series Creator to Watch by Gotham.

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