Charmaine Craig

Charmaine Craig is the author of three novels, including Miss Burma, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is a former actor in film and television, and, as the descendantof significant figures in Burma's modern history, she is a Burma activist privy to negotiations at the highest level in the current conflict. She studied literature at Harvard and received her MFA degree from the University of California, Irvine. She is a faculty member in the department of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.