Heng, Rachel

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Heng, Rachel
Date of birth
1988
Associated country
United States
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q59327694
Library of congress: n 2018001256
Sources of Information
  • Amazon.com website, viewed Jan. 8, 2018:(Rachel Heng's fiction has won Prairie Schooner's Jane Geske Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. An extract from Suicide Club was included in The Huffington Post's "15 Stellar Short Stories You Can Read Online" list. She graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Comparative Literature & Society and Economics and is currently a James A. Michener Fellow at the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin)
  • Email from publisher (Henry Holt and Company), Jan. 8, 2018:(per Libby Burton, the editor of Suicide Club: "(Rachel's) citizenship is Singaporean, but she currently lives in the United States."
  • Her Website, viewed Jan. 8, 2018:(Rachel Heng is a Singaporean novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Suicide Club, will be published by Sceptre, Hachette (UK) and Henry Holt, Macmillan (US) in July 2018. Rachel was born and raised in Singapore. After graduating from Columbia University with a BA in Comparative Literature & Society, she spent several years working in private equity in London. She currently lives in Austin, where she is pursuing her MFA in Fiction and Screenwriting at UT Austin's Michener Center for Writers with the generous support of the James A. Michener Fellowship.
  • Suicide club, 2018:ECIP t.p. (Rachel Heng)