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Author Description Rachel Heng is the author of the novels <i>The Great Reclamation</i> (Riverhead, 2023) and <i>Suicide Club</i> (Henry Holt, 2018), which has been translated into ten languages. Rachel's short fiction has been published in <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>McSweeney's Quarterly</i>, <i>Glimmer Train</i>, <i>Kenyon Review</i>, longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award, and recognized by anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions and Best New Singaporean Short Stories. Her non-fiction has been listed among Best American Essays’ Notable Essays and published in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Atlantic</i>, <i>Esquire</i> and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Fine Arts Work Center and the National Arts Council of Singapore. Rachel received her MFA in Fiction and Playwriting from the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin, and her BA in Comparative Literature & Society from Columbia University. She is currently an Assistant Professor in English at Wesleyan University.

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