Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of five novels: Someday We Will Fly (Penguin Random House, 2019); Banshee (Dottir Press, 2019); Blind (Penguin Random House, 2015); Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011); Repeat After Me (The Overlook Press, 2009); and the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005), about the years she spent in Beijing as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera. In 2020, DeWoskin's poetry collection, Two Menus, was published by the University of Chicago Press's Phoenix Poetry Series. Her awards include the National Jewish Book Award, Sydney Taylor Book Award, American Library Association's Alex Award, and Academy of American Poets Award. Three of her books, Foreign Babes in Beijing, Banshee, and Someday We Will Fly, are being developed for television. Her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in journals and anthologies including the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. DeWoskin is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Arts in the Creative Writing Program in the Department of English Language and Literature and an affiliated faculty member in Jewish Studies, East Asian Studies, and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago.