Jean Chen Ho

Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A. University of California, Berkeley
M.F.A. University of Nevada, Las Vegas

PhD. University of Southern California

Office: Palamountain 317
Phone: (518) 580-5488
Email: jeanho@skidmore.edu

Teaching and Research Interests: 

• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Asian American Literature
• short stories

Courses Taught:

• EN 281: Intro to Fiction Writing
• EN 380: Fiction Workshop

Publications:

Book

Fiona and Jane Viking/Penguin 2022

Short Fiction in

Electric Literature, Guernica, Georgia Review

Essays and Criticism in

New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Criterion, Los Angeles Review of Books

Jean Chen Ho is the author of Fiona and Jane, one of TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 and longlisted for the Story Prize. A Book of the Month and Belletrist Book Club selection, Fiona and Jane was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Vulture, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and Electric Literature. Jean’s fiction, essays, and criticism appear in New York Times Magazine, The Cut, Los Angeles Times, Guernica, and other publications.

Jean is the 2023-24 Visiting Assistant Professor in fiction at Skidmore College. She held the 2022-23 Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing at Scripps College, and has also taught writing workshops and literature seminars at the University of Southern California, UCLA Extension, University of Nevada, Tin House, and the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference.

Jean has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from USC, and an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is a Kundiman fellow, and has been awarded residencies at Hedgebrook, MacDowell, Aspen Words, Tin House, I-Park Foundation, Willapa Bay, the Mastheads, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. In 2019-20, she was the W.M. Keck and George & Arlene Cheng Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, where she worked on an archival project on gender and racial violence in 19th-century Los Angeles Chinatown (the subject of her next book). She was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in Southern California.