Severance

Ling Ma is a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer born in Sanming, China in 1983, raised in the United States. She won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2022 for *Bliss Montage*, a collection of stories exploring diaspora, desire, and the uncanny. Her debut novel *Severance* (2018), a satirical apocalyptic novel, became a cult classic.