Writers@Grinnell Welcomes Belinda Tang & Ada Zhang on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, at 8 p.m. in the Grinnell College Museum of Art. (GCMoA)

Belinda Tang & Ada Zhang will read from their debuts books: A Map for the Missing and The Sorrows of Others. These two deeply felt works, set between China and America, explore the experience of being an outsider—as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families. A Q&A with the authors will follow the reading.

Belinda Huijuan Tang

Belinda Huijuan Tang is a 2021 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and was a 2019 work-study fellow at the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She lived in China from 2016 to 2018 and, while there, received an master’s from Peking University in Beijing.

She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Ada Zhang

Ada Zhang is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere. She is currently the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. The Sorrows of Others is her first book.