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Weike Wang

Weike Wang earned her MFA in fiction from Boston University. She also holds degrees (BS and MS) from Harvard University. Her fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from SmokeLong Quarterly, Redivider, Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares. Her debut novel, Chemistry, will be out May 2017 from Knopf. She lives in New York City.

Mar/Apr 2017

By the Pantheon

By Weike Wang

The wife has asked the tour guide what happens when it rains. There is a hole in the ceiling that is open to the sky. Here the tour guide pauses. […]