Sunday Times: An identity crisis – novelist Maxine Mei-Fung Chung on the lack of diversity in thriller writing
Why don’t we have more by writers of colour, asks the author of The Eighth Girl
Category: Essays
Waterstones: Maxine Mei-Fung Chung’s Top 5 Crime Books by Authors of Colour
Maxine discusses diversity in crime, mystery and thriller fiction and shares her five favourite crime novels by authors of colour.
Foyles: An Unquiet Mind – The Power of Fiction for Exploring Mental illness
Maxine shares her process in writing the novel while working as a practicing psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and argues for Dissociative Identity Disorder to be presented empathetically across the media.
Irish Times: Long live our librarians – an ode to Mrs Veal
Maxine writes for the Irish Times about her love of libraries, and the woman who inspired her.
Maxine Mei-Fung Chung: ‘Psychotherapists can only take our patients as far as we’ve gone ourselves’
Next year, Pushkin Vertigo will publish Maxine’s debut novel, The Eighth Girl. As both a clinician and a writer, she sat down with her editor Harriet to talk race, misogyny and stigma in the world of psychology and crime writing.
CrimeReads: How Pop Culture Got It Wrong With Dissociative Identity Disorder
Read an essay by Maxine exploring how representations of DID in films, TV and literature creates stigmatisation of people living with mental illness.