Deanna Fei is the author of the novel A Thread of Sky (Penguin), named aNew York Times Editors' Choice, 2010 Best Book by the Chinese American Librarians' Association, and winner of Late Night Library's “Debut-litzer” Prize. A graduate of Amherst College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received a Fulbright Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The Millions, Huffington Post, and other publications.
Deanna lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.