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Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA in fiction from NYU. Her novel, Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, about the infamous pirate queen of the South China Sea is forthcoming in 2023 from Bloomsbury. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories 2021, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, the Writers Grotto, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University. She is represented by Michelle Brower at Trellis Literary Management.
photo: Lily Dong Photography
Work
Fiction
Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea, forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2023
“The Miracle Girl,” The Best American Short Stories 2021
“My Father, the Morning Star,” Midnight Breakfast, Fall 2021
“Ebbing’s Cursed Toccata,” McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Spring 2021
“The Bad Kind of Puppy,” The Rumpus, October 2020
“The Miracle Girl,” Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2020
“This Infernal Machine,” Santa Monica Review, Spring 2020
“The Last to Die,” Clarkesworld, January 2020
“Saving the Monster of Kowloon,” Conjunctions, Spring 2019
“Chinese Girls Don’t Have Fairy Tales,” McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Spring 2018
“Dignity,” Kenyon Review Online, Winter 2013
“The Vestige,” Calyx, Summer 2012
Other
“Arrivals and Departures,” Alta, August 5, 2022
“The Unsympathetic Characters of Elfriede Jelinek’s The Piano Teacher,” Pleiades, Summer 2020
