Jamie Ford is the author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, which spent two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller list and won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. This multi-cultural tale has been optioned for film and stage and is taught in hundreds of schools nationwide. His other bestselling novels include Songs of Willow Frost and The Many Daughters of Afong Moy, published in 2022 and optioned by Jenna Bush Hager’s production company, Thousand Voices. 

A self-taught writer, Ford has done artist residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, and Ucross, and his work has been translated into 35 languages. His honors include the 2018 ArtsFund Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts, being named Historian of the Year by Historic Hotels of America, and being selected for World Book Night 2014, where he donated 50,000 books to underserved communities. In 2024, he served as a Fiction judge for the National Book Awards. 

Ford is the great-grandson of Min Chung, a Nevada mining pioneer who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865 and adopted the western surname “Ford,” thus confusing countless generations. 

He currently lives in Montana with his wife, three dogs, and his imaginary friends.