Her debut memoir, Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love, and the Perfect Meal, won First Prize from the M.F.K. Fisher Book Awards. Chin, who wrote the “Urban Forager” column for The New York Times, has also published her work in Marie Claire, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Saveur, and The Village Voice. She has received Fulbright, Van Lier, and Advanced Research Collaborative fellowships. During her year at the Cullman Center, she will be working on a book about the impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act laws on four generations of her family in New York’s Chinatown.