RACHEL DEWOSKIN’s fourth book, Blind, is forthcoming from Penguin in August, 2014. Her most recent novel, Big Girl Small received the 2012 American Library Association’s Alex Award and was named one of the top 3 books of 2011 by Newsday. DeWoskin’s memoir, Foreign Babes in Beijing, about the years she spent in China as the unlikely star of a Chinese soap opera, has been published in six countries and developed as a television series by HBO, for which Rachel co-wrote the pilot episode. Her debut novel Repeat After Me won a Foreward Magazine Book of the Year Award. DeWoskin’s poems have appeared in the journals Ploughshares, Seneca Review, New Delta Review, Nerve Magazine, The New Orleans Review, and The Helen Burns Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poetry.