Weike Wang is the author of CHEMISTRY (Knopf 2017), JOAN IS OKAY (Random House 2022) and the forthcoming RENTAL HOUSE (Riverhead 2024). She is the recipient of a Pen Hemingway, a Whiting award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories and has won an O. Henry Prize. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University and Barnard College.
Writing is a solitary venture that can get very lonely. I like having the presence of other writers around and just thinking about writing can generate a spark.