Weike Wang is the author of the novel Chemistry, winner of the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. She holds a doctorate in public health from Harvard University and an MFA from Boston University, and she is a 2018 Whiting Award winner. Her short stories have appeared in journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares. https://www.brockport.edu/academics/english/writers_forum/