Rachel DeWoskin is the award-winning author of five novels: Someday We Will Fly; Banshee; Blind; Big Girl Small; Repeat After Me; the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing; and the poetry collection, Two Menus. Her essays, poems, and articles have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Ploughshares, and New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. DeWoskin’s awards include a National Jewish Book Award, a Sydney Taylor Book Award, and an American Library Association’s Alex Award, among others. Three of her books are being developed for television. She is on the fiction faculty at the University of Chicago, and affiliated faculty in Jewish Studies and East Asian Studies.