Rachel DeWoskin is the author of six books of fiction and nonfiction for teens and adults: Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China, Repeat After Me, Big Girl Small (winner of ALA’s Alex Award), Blind, Someday We Will Fly (winner of the National Jewish Book Award and ALA’s Sydney Taylor Book Award), and Banshee. She is also an accomplished poet, and has published two volumes of poetry with University of Chicago Press: Two Menus and absolute animal. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Teachers and Writers, and numerous anthologies. She spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera, which became the basis for her memoir. She has been a professor of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry at New York University, Boston University, and the University of Chicago. She is the curator of Theater for One’s Poetry for One project, a resident poet at the Goodman Theater, a member of the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA), a professor for Illinois’ Prison Neighborhood Arts Project, and teaches at Stateville Prison. She lives in Chicago with her husband and two daughters.
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