Author: Rachel Heng

Rachel Heng blogged for The MFA Years in 2017 and 2018. Her novel, Suicide Club, was published in 2018 by Sceptre, Hachette, and Henry Holt, Macmillan. Her fiction has appeared in Best Small Fictions, Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s, Best New Singaporean Short Stories, Kenyon Review, and Guernica. She was born in Singapore, went to school in New York, and worked in London before moving to Austin to earn her MFA at the Michener Center for Writers. Find Rachel at her website, rachelhengqp.com.

Photo of Rachel Heng as a child with her father.

2018, Archives, May 2018, The MFA Years

On Grief, Publishing Your First Novel, and Turning 30

May 10, 2018October 13, 2020 Rachel Heng

I turn 30 this weekend! (I'm hoping the exclamation mark makes it less of a terrifying new phase of life) When I started the MFA Years I thought I'd blog a lot more; after years of writing fiction around the day job, I was finally headed to grad school and the full time writing life. I would… Continue reading On Grief, Publishing Your First Novel, and Turning 30

2017, Archives, October 2017, The MFA Years

On applying

October 24, 2017September 23, 2020 Rachel Heng

Photo: Bryan Jones I was going to write a post about my first month at Michener, but since I've been getting a bunch of application-related questions from people on Draft, I thought it might be helpful to do an 'applying to MFAs' post. A version of this post appeared previously on my own blog, so… Continue reading On applying

2017, Archives, August 2017, The MFA Years

Rachel Heng Introduction (Michener Center for Writers ’20)

August 29, 2017September 23, 2020 Rachel Heng

Image: Nick Page In two days I will fly to Austin to start my MFA, but for now I find myself in the living room of my flat in London, surrounded by very large piles of clothes. Turns out shipping things across the Atlantic is eye-wateringly expensive (duh, what did I think), so I’ve spent… Continue reading Rachel Heng Introduction (Michener Center for Writers ’20)