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Weike Wang Wins Beltran Family Award for Innovative Teaching & Mentoring at the Kelly Writers House

Weike Wang is the recipient of this year’s Beltran Family Award. Weike Wang is the author of the novel Chemistry (Knopf, 2017), and her short fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Wang is a 2018 Aspen Words Literary Prize finalist and a 5 under 35 National Book Foundation honoree. She holds a BA from Harvard University, an SM and SD from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. She lives in New York City. Wang is the Craven Writer in Residence in the Creative Writing Program.

You can read more about the Beltran Family Award and its affiliated programs here.

Weike Wang is the author of the novel Chemistry (Knopf, 2017), and her short fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. Wang is a 2018 Aspen Words Literary Prize finalist and a 5 under 35 National Book Foundation honoree. She holds a BA from Harvard University, an SM and SD from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. She lives in New York City. Wang is the Craven Writer in Residence in the Creative Writing Program.

You can read more about the Beltran Family Award and its affiliated programs here.