Rachel Heng‘s first novel, Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), was named a most-anticipated read of 2018 by publications such as Huffington Post, Gizmodo, Bustle, the Irish Times, New Scientist, ELLE, and Rumpus, and will be translated into ten languages worldwide. Heng’s short fiction received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, Prairie Schooner‘s Jane Geske Award, and been published in Glimmer Train, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from Fine Arts Work Center, National Arts Council of Singapore, and Michener Center for Writers.
Jan/Feb 2021
An Excerpt from “Coffins Patch”
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. Coffins Patch is dying, and everything suggests there is no hope of saving it. Still, wet suit clad, Ei Mun rolls backward off […]
Fiction
Jan/Feb 2021
Coffins Patch
Coffins Patch is dying, and everything suggests there is no hope of saving it. Still, wet suit clad, Ei Mun rolls backward off the boat. Here is the world flipping […]
May/June 2019
You Know I Want It Ice Cold
After you have put your mother to bed for the fifth time that night, you lean back into the sagging sofa bed and open your laptop again. You are trying […]
Rachel Heng
Rachel Heng is the author of the novels The Great Reclamation (forthcoming from Riverhead Books in 2022) and Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), which has been translated into ten languages […]