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Weike Wang sitting on stairs, legs crossed, smiling, in front of wooden doors
KWH: Weike Wang, Cheryl J. Family Fiction Reading
With student opener Daniel Finkel (C’18)
  • Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk


WEIKE WANG is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. Her first novel, Chemistry, received the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, Ploughshares' John C. Zacharis Award, and a Whiting Award. A "5 Under 35" honoree of the National Book Foundation, Weike is the Craven Writer in Residence in the Penn Creative Writing Program.

DANIEL FINKEL is a junior majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing. He is currently the head editor of The Penn Review and is conducting CURF-supported research on the early poetry of Ezra Pound.