Weike Wang earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health at Harvard University. She received her MFA from Boston University. She is a 2017 ‘5 Under 35’ honouree of the National Book Foundation. She lives in New York.

Weike Wang is a recipient of the 2018 Whiting Award. 

Read ‘My Top Female Scientists’ by Weike Wang in Female First 
Read ‘Something Left to Prove’ by Weike Wang in Lenny 
Read ‘Weike Wang on the Privilege of Not Having to Think About Race’ in the New Yorker, June 2018
Read Weike Wang’s story, ‘Omakase’ in the New Yorker, June 2018 
Read Weike Wang’s story ‘The Trip’ in the New Yorker, November 2019