A woman with long black hair, wearing a black leather jacket and a black top, standing against a plain white wall.

Jade Song is an artist and the author of novels Chlorine and I Love You Don’t Die. Her third book, Ox Ghost Snake Demon, is a short story collection forthcoming January 2027. Lauded as “visionary and disturbing,” Chlorine was a winner of the Alex Award and the Writer’s Center First Novel Prize, selected as a New York Times Editor's Choice, and translated into five languages. I Love You Don’t Die was named a Must Read Novel of 2026 by Vogue, Forbes, and Book Riot, among others.

Song has received fellowships & support from the Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, MASS MoCA, and the Black List, which selected her adapted screenplay of Chlorine for its annual Writers Lab. Her short stories, essays, and creative nonfiction have appeared in literary magazines like Joyland, The Common, Electric Literature, Missouri Review, and elsewhere; they have taught writing at organizations like Tin House, Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop, Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop, and Morbid Anatomy. They pole dance and live with too many books in Brooklyn.