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Rachel is the author of six books: Blind, Big Girl Small, Foreign Babes in Beijing, Repeat After Me, Someday We Will Fly, and Banshee. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Teachers and Writers, and numerous anthologies. She spent her twenties in China as the unlikely star of a nighttime soap opera, which became the basis for her memoir. She is on the core fiction faculty at the University of Chicago, and is an affiliated faculty member of the Centers for East Asian Studies and Jewish Studies. 

Available to speak on writing rage and fear, writing self and other, writing across poetry, novels and memoir, film adaptation, migration stories, history of the Shanghai Jews during WWII

Praise

“With X-ray-vision empathy and vivacity under fire, DeWoskin once again finds literary gold in painful circumstances.”—KIRKUS REVIEWS

“A feminist call-to-arms, Banshee burns toxic masculinity to the ground with humor and truth.”—MS. MAGAZINE

“DeWoskin's novel is an indictment on a society that prioritizes the experiences of men and has never been comfortable with a woman's anger.”—NYLON

“Intensely introspective and poetic, DeWoskin’s work traps readers inside the claustrophobic mind of her protagonist and turns up the heat.”—PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY