Rachel Heng
Rachel Heng | |
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Reading at Fall for the Book, 12 October 2023 | |
| Born | 1988 (age 36–37) Singapore |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Education | Columbia University (BA in Comparative Literature) University of Texas at Austin (MFA in Fiction) |
| Notable works | Suicide Club (2018) The Great Reclamation (2023) |
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Rachel Heng (born 1988) is a Singaporean novelist and the author of literary dystopian novel Suicide Club (2018) and award-winning The Great Reclamation (2023). 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, the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, and the New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research, and she has been profiled by the BBC, Electric Literature, and other publications.