Leta Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Dissent Magazine, Ms. Magazine, BBC, CNN and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting and is currently a Research Associate at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, USA and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She is the author of Leftover Women (2014) and Betraying Big Brother (2018).