Rachel DeWoskin’s most recent novels Banshee (Dottir, 2019), and Someday We Will Fly (Viking Penguin, 2019), were published in 2019 to critical acclaim. In a starred review of Banshee, Kirkus writes “With X-ray-vision, empathy, and vivacity under fire, DeWoskin once again finds literary gold in painful circumstances.” Banshee is in development as an indie film with Ally Sheedy. In a starred review of Someday We Will Fly, Booklist writes: “DeWoskin, who has lived in China, has done meticulous research, but what stands out is her lyrical, sensitive portrayal of families struggling to survive during wartime, and the heartbreaking uncertainty that comes from families being separated.” DeWoskin’s poetry collection, Two Menus, is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press in April, 2020. Her novel, Blind, was published by Penguin in 2014, and was an Illinois Reads and a Library Guild Pick. Big Girl Small (FSG, 2011), received the American Library Association’s Alex Award and was named one of the top three books of the year by Newsday. DeWoskin’s memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing (WW Norton, 2005), about the years she spent in China as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera, has been published in six countries, optioned by Paramount, HBO and the Sundance Channel, and developed at BBC America, where DeWoskin co-wrote a television pilot based on the book. DeWoskin’s debut novel Repeat After Me won a Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine of London, Teachers and Writers, and numerous anthologies. Her poems have been published in journals including Agni, Ploughshares, Seneca Review, New Delta Review, The New Orleans Review, and collections including The Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets. She is on the core fiction faculty and is an affiliated faculty member of Jewish Studies and East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago.
Rachel DeWoskin
Studios
Schelling
Rachel DeWoskin worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…