Rachel Heng

Born and raised in Singapore, Rachel Heng is the author of the novel The Great Reclamation. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the National Arts Council of Singapore, among others. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University.

Books

What 'Next In Fashion' Taught Me About The Creative Life

When novelist Rachel Heng threw on the Netflix reality show, she never expected to have an epiphany.

By Rachel Heng