Rachel DeWoskin is the award-win­ning author of five nov­els: Ban­shee; Some­day We Will Fly; Blind; Big Girl Small, and Repeat After Me; and the mem­oir For­eign Babes in Bei­jing, about the years she spent in Bei­jing as the unlike­ly star of a Chi­nese soap opera. Her poet­ry col­lec­tion, Two Menus, was pub­lished by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go Press in May of 2020, and she has Hol­ly­wood devel­op­ment deals for For­eign Babes in Bei­jing and Ban­shee. Her work has appeared in The New York­er, Van­i­ty Fair, and numer­ous jour­nals and antholo­gies. She’s an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Prac­tice at UChica­go and an affil­i­at­ed fac­ul­ty mem­ber in Jew­ish and East Asian Studies.