Belinda Huijuan Tang is from San Jose, California. She is the author of A Map for the Missing, long-listed for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she was a Truman Capote Fellow and recipient of the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. She holds a BA from Stanford University in Economics and was a work-study fellow at the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She lived in China from 2016 to 2018 and, while there, received an MA from Peking University in Beijing. Her screenwriting was recently a Semi-finalist in The Script Lab Screenplay Contest.