Ling Ma’s prescient 2018 debut novel, “Severance” (no relation to the popular Apple TV Plus show), was set in a world where a virus turns people into zombies fated to repeat on a loop an ...

Ling Ma’s own “Bliss Montage” is a surreal subversion of this trope. The women populating these stories are not merely at the center, they are the center.

Ling Ma’s Continual State of Return. After foretelling the horrors of pandemic-era capitalism in her 2018 novel, Severance, Ma returns with a disquieting story collection for the subconscious.

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Ling Ma made a bold entrance into the literary world with the release of “Severance” in 2018. Her debut novel received praise from critics and casual readers alike, ...

While Ling Ma has already proven herself to be a dazzling storyteller after her first novel “Severance,” her debut short story collection intuitively breaks into the universal anxieties of modern life ...

But Ling Ma’s was weirder than most. A year and a half before Covid-19 hit the U.S., Ma published her first novel, “Severance.” The book told the story of Candace Chen, ...

Ling Ma: It was Spring 2020 and I was jogging around this track that was near my apartment, like a runner’s track. Joe Skinner: That’s Ling Ma, a Chicago writer who recently won the National ...

Ling Ma's 2018 debut novel, Severance, imagined a world ravaged by the sudden onset of something called "Shen Fever" — a fictitious infection that originated in Southern China.

I don’t know if Ling Ma is an insomniac, but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that she is. For the sleepless, the veil between consciousness and the realm of dreams is worn thin; waking life ...

Ling Ma, Author of “Severance,” Talks About Her New Speculative Short-Story Collection, “Bliss Montage” “I didn’t know where the story was headed, but that one wrote itself very ...

You turn the pages of "Bliss Montage," Ling Ma's new book of short stories, and find the world you thought you knew shaken up and rearranged. A woman lives in a Los Angeles house that's stocked ...