Angie Chau was born in Vietnam and currently lives in Berkeley. She earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Davis, where she was the fiction editor for The Greenbelt Review. She has been awarded a Hedgebrook Residency and a Macondo Foundation Fellowship. Her work has appeared in the Indiana Review, Santa Clara Review, Night Train, and the anthology Cheers to Muses. In 2009 she won the UC Davis Maurice Prize in Fiction.