Rachel Heng is a Singaporean novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Her debut novel, Suicide Club, will be published by Sceptre, Hachette (UK) and Henry Holt, Macmillan (US) in July 2018. Translation rights have also been sold in Sweden, Portugal, Italy, Czech Republic, Taiwan and China thus far. Suicide Club is available for pre-order in hardcover, e-book and audiobook on Amazon (UK/ US).
Rachel's short stories have appeared in The Offing, Prairie Schooner, the minnesota review and elsewhere. Her fiction has won Prairie Schooner's Jane Geske Award, was recently nominated for the Pushcart Prize and has been included in the Huffington Post's "15 Stellar Short Stories You Can Read Online" list. Rachel's non-fiction has been published in AfterGLOBE and Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism.
Rachel was born and raised in Singapore. After graduating from Columbia University with a BA in Comparative Literature & Society, she spent several years working in private equity in London. She currently lives in Austin, where she is pursuing her MFA in Fiction and Screenwriting at UT Austin's Michener Center for Writers with the generous support of the James A. Michener Fellowship.
Rachel can be found on Twitter @rachelhengqp. Her agent is Juliet Mushens at Caskie Mushens.