Editing Gish Jen (section)

==Honors and awards==
In 2009, Princeton's [[Elaine Showalter]] devoted much attention to Jen in her survey of American women writers, "A Jury of Her Peers:  American Women Writers From [[Anne Bradstreet]] to [[Annie Proulx]]."  In an article in ''The Guardian'', Showalter elaborated, including Jen in a list of eight top authors, and pointing out that Jen's "vision of a multicultural America goes well beyond the angry rants or despairing projections of [[Philip Roth|Roth]], [[Don DeLillo|DeLillo]], McCarthy or other finalists in the [[Great American Novel]] competition."<ref>{{cite web|author=Elaine Showalter |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/09/female-novelists-usa |title=Elaine Showalter chooses the best novelists writing in the US today &#124; Books |work=The Guardian |date=2009-05-09 |access-date=2014-03-16}}</ref> In 2012, [[Junot Díaz|Junot Diaz]] concurred, calling Jen "the Great American Novelist we're always hearing about."  And in 2000, in a millennial edition of ''The Times Magazine'' in the UK, in which figures were asked to name their successors in the 21st century, [[John Updike]] picked Jen.<ref>Updike Remembered, The New Republic, https://newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/updike-remembered</ref>

''Thank You, Mr. Nixon'' was longlisted for the inaugural [[Carol Shields Prize for Fiction]] in 2023.<ref>Deborah Dundas, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2023/03/08/5-canadians-nominated-for-first-carol-shields-prize-for-fiction-for-women-and-non-binary-writers-worth-150000-us.html "5 Canadians nominated for first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for women and non-binary writers, worth $150,000 (U.S.)"]. ''[[Toronto Star]]'', March 8. 2023.</ref>

*2019      Honorary Fellow, Modern Languages Association
*2017      Legacy Award, Museum of Chinese in America, New York
*2015      Honorary PhD, Williams College
*2013      Named Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Baruch-CUNY
*2013      Story included in The Best American Short Stories of 2013 
*2012      Delivered the Massey Lectures at Harvard University (an annual lecture series sponsored by the American Studies program) 
*2011	Winner of the Massachusetts Book Prize 
*2011      Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
*2009	Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
*2006	Featured in a PBS American Masters Program on the American Novel
*2004     Honorary PhD, Emerson College
*2003	Received a Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
*2003	Received a Fulbright Fellowship to the People's Republic of China
*2001	Received a Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship
*1999	Story included in The Best American Short Stories of the Century 
*1999	Received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction
*1995	Story included in The Best American Short Stories of 1995
*1992 	Received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
*1991 	Finalist for the National Book Critics' Circle Award
*1988	Received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
*1988	Story included in The Best American Short Stories of 1988
*1986	Received a Radcliffe College Bunting Institute Fellowship