Rachel DeWoskin

Rachel spent her twen­ties in Chi­na as a con­sul­tant, writer, and the unlike­ly star of a night­time soap opera called ​“For­eign Babes in Bei­jing.” Her mem­oir of those years, For­eign Babes in Bei­jing, has been pub­lished in six coun­tries and is being devel­oped as a tele­vi­sion series by HBO. Her nov­el Repeat After Me, about a young Amer­i­can ESL teacher, a trou­bled Chi­nese rad­i­cal, and their unex­pect­ed New York romance, won a Fore­ward Mag­a­zine Book of the Year award. Her third book, the nov­el Big Girl Small, is forth­com­ing from FSG in 2011. Rachel has a BA in Eng­lish from Colum­bia and an MFA in poet­ry from Boston Uni­ver­si­ty. Rachel divides her time between NYC, Chica­go, and Bei­jing with her hus­band, play­wright Zayd Dohrn, and their two lit­tle girls.