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Jianan Qian

Jianan Qian is a recent graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop with an MFA degree in fiction. Qian is a staff writer at The Millions, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Guernica, and The O. Henry Prize Stories, among others.