Charmaine Craig

Charmaine Craig was born on Sep 20, 1971 in Burma. Charmaine Craig's big-screen debut came with White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf directed by Ken Olin in 1994.

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.