Kaitlin Solimine has considered China a second home for almost two decades. While an undergraduate at Harvard, she studied at Beijing University as a Harvard-Yenching scholar and wrote and edited Let's Go China (St. Martin’s Press). In 2006-2007, she was a Fulbright Fellow in China. She was the Donald E. Axinn Scholar in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and graduated from the MFA program in writing at UC-San Diego.