Rachel Heng | |
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 Reading at Fall for the Book, 12 October 2023 | |
| Born | Singapore |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | BA (Comparative Literature), Columbia University; MFA (Fiction), The University of Texas at Austin |
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Rachel Heng (born 1988) is a Singaporean novelist and the author of The Great Reclamation and literary dystopian novel Suicide Club. Her short fiction has been published in many literary journals including The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, Tin House, and the Minnesota Review. Her fiction has received recognition from the Pushcart Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, the New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research in US,[1] and she has been profiled by the BBC, Electric Literature and other publications. Her second novel, The Great Reclamation, was published by Riverhead Books in March 2023.[2][3]
- ^ "The New American Voices Award". Institute for Immigration Research. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
- ^ Treisman, Deborah (31 May 2021). "Rachel Heng on Societal Cruelty". The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "The Great Reclamation". Rachel Heng. Retrieved 3 August 2021.