Michael Chin was born and raised in Utica, New York and currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife and son. He is the author of seven books to date, including the short story collection This Year’s Ghost (JackLeg Press) and the novel My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So Is Yours (Cowboy Jamboree Press). Chin won the 2017-2018 Jean Leiby Chapbook Award from The Florida Review and Bayou Magazine’s 2014 James Knudsen Prize for Fiction.