RACHEL DEWOSKIN is the author of five novels – Banshee, Someday We Will Fly, Blind, Big Girl Small, y Repeat After Me – the memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing; and the poetry collections Two Menus y un auténtico animal. Her essays, poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in El neoyorquino, Vanity Fair, El Sunday Times Magazine of London, Condé Nast Traveler, Asian Wall Street Journal, and numerous journals and anthologies. She is on the core creative writing faculty at the University of Chicago and affiliated faculty in Jewish and East Asian Studies. DeWoskin also serves on the national steering committee of Writers for Democratic Action (WDA).