Jade Song

Jade Song is a writer, filmmaker, art director, and artist whose debut novel Chlorine was published by William Morrow. Lauded as "visionary and disturbing," Chlorine was selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice and awarded the American Library Association Alex Award and the Writer's Center First Novel Prize. Named a Most Anticipated, Must Read, or Best Book of 2023 by Vanity Fair, Polygon, The Economist, The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, HuffPost, The Boston Globe, and more, Chlorine has been translated into Chinese, Turkish, French, and other languages.

Song's second novel, I Love You Don’t Die, will be published on March 17, 2026, and their debut short story collection, Ox Ghost Snake Demon, is forthcoming in spring 2027, both from William Morrow. Their short stories, essays, and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines like Joyland, Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Teen Vogue, and Electric Literature, among others.

Song has received support and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Black List, which selected their adapted screenplay of Chlorine for its annual Writers Lab. Song has been a featured speaker, instructor, or presenter at The Writer’s Center, Tin House, Amherst College, The Miami Book Fair, The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Montclair Literary Festival, IFC Theater, and elsewhere.