Sophie Chen Keller is a Chinese-American novelist and classically trained pianist whose fiction explores motherhood, resilience, belonging, and human connection. Born in northeastern China, she immigrated to the United States at age four, later graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics, and published her first short story in Glimmer Train at just 15. She is the author of The Luster of Lost Things (2017) and Little Wonder (2026), which became her breakout novel after being selected as Oprah’s 124th Book Club pick and published through Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices imprint. Keller has lived in New York City and Beijing and currently resides in Germany with her husband and two children.