Weike Wang is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares, which also named Chemistry the winner of its John C. Zacharis Award. A ‘5 Under 35’ honouree of the National Book Foundation, Weike currently lives in New York City.

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