Excess Male (King) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Raised—Taiwan; Seattle, Washington, USA
• Education—B.A., Harvard University;
• Currently—lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California


Maggie Shen King is the author of An Excess Male, published by Harper Voyager. Her short stories have appeared in Ecotone, ZYZZYVA, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and Fourteen Hills. Her manuscript "Fortune's Fools," won Second Prize in Amazon's 2012 Breakthrough Novel Award. She is Goodread's September 2017 Debut Author of the Month.

Maggie grew up in Taiwan and attended both Chinese and American schools before moving to Seattle at age sixteen. She attended Harvard University where she took a single creative writing class but did not begin writing in earnest until 2004 when her youngest child started middle school.

Since then, she has studied with Nancy Packer, Eric Puchner, Thomas McNeely, and Otis Haschemeyer at Stanford University’s Continuing Studies Program. She shows her work regularly to two writing groups, one of which was formed at the conclusion of her first course at Stanford.

Maggie lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. When she is not writing, she can usually be found hacking her way around a golf course. She adores roses and is always on the lookout for shade-tolerant varieties that can thrive in the odd corners of her garden. (Adapted fom the author's website.)

Read an interview with the author on The Quillery.