Rachel Heng
Assistant Professor of English
BA Columbia UniversityMFA University of Texas Austin
Rachel Heng
Rachel Heng is the author of the novels The Great Reclamation (Riverhead, 2023) and Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), which has been translated into ten languages worldwide and won the Gladstone Library Writer-In-Residence Award. Rachel's short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's Quarterly, One Story, Kenyon Review, and has been recognized by anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions and Best New Singaporean Short Stories. She was recently longlisted for the 2021 Sunday Times Short Story Award, “the world’s richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story.” Her non-fiction has been listed among Best American Essays’ Notable Essays and published in Al Jazeera, Guernica, BOMB Magazine, The Rumpus and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Fine Arts Work Center and the National Arts Council of Singapore. Rachel received her MFA in Fiction and Playwriting from the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin, and her BA in Comparative Literature & Society from Columbia University.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
Wednesdays, 4.15pm-6.15pm or by appointment
Courses
Spring 2023
ENGL 296 - 01
Techniques of Fiction
ENGL 342 - 02
Advanced Fiction Workshop
Fall 2023
ENGL 296 - 02
Techniques of Fiction
ENGL 339 - 02
Intermediate Fiction Workshop