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Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of five novels: Someday We Will Fly (Penguin 2019); Banshee (Dottir 2019); Blind (Penguin 2015); Big Girl Small (FSG 2011); Repeat After Me (Overlook 2009); two poetry collections, absolute animal (University of Chicago Press 2023) and Two Menus (University of Chicago Press 2020); as well as 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. She has received a National Jewish Book Award, a Sydney Taylor Book Award, an American Library Association's Alex Award, and an Academy of American Poets Award, among others. Three of her books, Foreign Babes in Beijing, Someday We Will Fly, and Banshee, are being developed for feature film or television. DeWoskin's poems, essays, and articles have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. DeWoskin is the curator of Theater for One’s Poetry for One Project, and a poet for the Goodman Theater’s upcoming season. She serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).
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