Gish Jen has published short work in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and dozens of other periodicals, anthologies and textbooks. Her stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike.  

Jen is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She has been awarded a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellowship, and a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living; she has also delivered the William E. Massey, Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. She is currently a Visiting Professor at Harvard. 

Bad Bad Girl  is her tenth book.