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Weike Wang is the author of the novel “Chemistry,” published by Vintage in April 2018, and her short fiction has been published in “Glimmer Train,” “the Alaska Quarterly Review,” “Ploughshares,” and others. Wang is a finalist for the 2018 “Aspen Words Literary Prize” and a “5 Under 35” National Book Foundation honoree. She holds a BA from Harvard University, an SM and SD from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. She lives in New York City.

News and Reviews:

Weike Wang on the Privilege of Not Having to Think About Race (The New Yorker)
Debut Author Weike Wang Wins $25,000 PEN/Hemingway Award (PEN America)
Halle Butler, Weike Wang Among NBF’s Five Under 35 Honorees (Publishers Weekly)
Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’ charts a young woman’s toxic reaction to stress (The Washington Post)


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