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Author Bio
Birth—ca. 1987
Raised—Livingston, New Jersey, USA
Education—B.A., New York University; M.F.A., University of Wisconsin
Awards—August Derleth Prize
Currently—living in Madison, Wisconsin


Lucy Tan grew up in New Jersey and has spent much of her adult life in New York and Shanghai. She received her B.A. from New York University and her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was awarded the 2016 August Derleth Prize.

Her fiction has been published in journals such as Asia Literary Review and Ploughshares, where she was winner of the 2015 Emerging Writer's Contest. This is her first novel. (From the publisher.)