Biography

Charmaine Craig studied literature at Harvard College, received her MFA from the University of California at Irvine, and serves as a faculty member in the Department of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, where she particularly enjoys teaching literature, the art of the paragraph, and forms of narration. Her first novel, The Good Men (Riverhead), was a national bestseller translated into six languages. Her second novel, Miss Burma (Grove), long listed for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction, is based on the lives of her mother and grandparents, all born in Burma. Formerly an actor in film and television, she grew up in Los Angeles, where she now resides with her husband, author Andrew Winer, and their daughters.
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Graduated "Magna Cum Laude" from Harvard University in 1994 where she received her B.A. in medieval studies, and earned her MFA in 1997 at the graduate writing program at the University of California at Irvine.

Wrote a historical novel titled "The Good Men". Published by Riverhead Books in January 2002.

September 2014 - Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of California at Riverside. She has also served as visiting professor in fiction at Pomona College.

She was the model Glen Keane used to draw the character Pocahontas for Disney's animated film of the same name, but the title character was voiced by Irene Bedard.