Susan Choi is an American novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her novels American Woman, A Person of Interest, and Trust Exercise, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She has also written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Atlantic. Her work often explores themes of identity, race, and gender. She has received numerous awards, including the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award, the Asian American Literary Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She currently teaches creative writing at Yale University.