Rachel DeWoskin

Committee on Creative Writing

Rachel DeWoskin is Visiting Lecturer in the Committee on Creative Writing. She is the author of Big Girl Small: A Novel (New York, FSG: 2011), the award-winning novel Repeat After Me (New York: Overlook, 2009), and a memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China (New York: W.W. Norton, 2005), which has been published in six countries and is being developed as a television series by HBO. She has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, and her awards include a ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award, a Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Fellowship, American Library Association’s 2012 Alex Award, and an American Academy of Poets Award. Her next novel, Blind, is forthcoming from Penguin in 2013.