Weike Wang

Weike Wang is the author of Chemistry (Knopf, 2017). She is the recipient of the 2018 Pen Hemingway, a Whiting award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35. Her work has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and The New Yorker, among other publications. She is in the 2019 Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Prizes. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Her second novel, Joan is Okay, is forthcoming in January 2022 from Random House.