Dr. Weike Wang is an author. She also teaches creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and Barnard College. Wang's fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, and Redivider. Her first novel, "Chemistry," was published in 2017 and received the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. Her second novel, "Joan Is Okay," was published in 2022. Wang received her B.Sc. in Chemistry and her Ph.D. in Public Health from Harvard University, and her M.F.A. from Boston University.