Meng Jin (born 1989) is an American novelist.
She graduated with a BA from Harvard University in 2011, and from Hunter College's MFA program in 2015. While at Hunter, she was a Hertog Fellow. Continuing to teach literature and creative writing at Hunter, Jin also guest lectures at Harvard. She is a Kundiman Fellow at Fordham University and a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University; and has also received support from the Elizabeth George Foundation.
Her writing has appeared in Baltimore Review, Ploughshares, The Arkansas International, The Threepenny Review, Vogue, Bare Life Review, and The Masters Review; as well as anthologies such as The Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses.
She became the 2016-17 David T. K. Wong Fellow, a program at University of East Anglia, for her work in "deepening â through literature â inter-cultural understanding between Asia and the West".