Ada Zhang

Oct 17, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Ada Zhang

This story is published in collaboration with the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction. They were the only vegetarians, a fact that was highlighted every game day when the other girls loaded up on chicken sandwiches or steak fajitas while Yoon and Carmen ate salads of iceberg lettuce and shredded cheese, forgoing the ranch that came in rectangular packets, which they agreed was disgusting. They ate ironically, offering a round of applause whenever one found an actual cherry tomato.

Aug 23, 2023 | nature.com | Shinya Tasaki |Ada Zhang |Aron S. Buchman

AbstractHand drawing, which requires multiple neural systems for planning and controlling sequential movements, is a useful cognitive test for older adults. However, the conventional visual assessment of these drawings only captures limited attributes and overlooks subtle details that could help track cognitive states. Here, we utilized a deep-learning model, PentaMind, to examine cognition-related features from hand-drawn images of intersecting pentagons.

Jul 2, 2023 | latimes.com | Ada Zhang

(Molly Hennessy-Fiske / Los Angeles Times) When a piece in the New Yorker came out in February, chronicling the premeditated growth of Austin, Texas, once a hippie town, into a tech conglomerate and home to SpaceX, I saw my family’s story. My parents immigrated to the U.S. from China in the ’80s. They received master’s degrees in computer science from Oklahoma, where I was born, and in 1996 bought their first house in Austin. Land back then was abundant and cheap, the article said.

Jun 15, 2023 | electricliterature.com | Alexia Arthurs |Ada Zhang

Electric Literature recently launched a new creative nonfiction program, and received 500 submissions in just 36 hours! Now we need your help to grow our team, carefully and efficiently review submitted work, and further establish EL as a home for artful and urgent nonfiction. We’ve set a goal of raising $10,000 by the end of June. We’re almost there! Please give what you can today.

Jun 2, 2023 | magazine.foriowa.org | Ellen Yandel |Jamel Brinkley |Curtis Sittenfeld |Ada Zhang

Add these new releases by Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumni Jamel Brinkley, Curtis Sittenfeld, and Ada Zhang to your reading list. Witness by Jamel Brinkley (15MFA) Macmillan, available Aug. 1 The National Book Award finalist’s latest short story collection explores what it means to bear witness and take action through its characters’ experiences of love, loneliness, and kindness in contemporary New York.