TE-PING CHEN is a journalist and the author of the story collection Land of Big Numbers, a Washington Post Notable Fiction title and one of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta and Tin House. She is a Wall Street Journal correspondent in Philadelphia who was previously based in Beijing and Hong Kong. She has reported on rice cookers and wrongful convictions, gotten hung up on by Edward Snowden and eaten more robot-cooked noodles than she can count.