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Weike Wang

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If I were to describe my twenties, I would have to say that they were busy. The years before that were busy as well. I moved around a lot. I was born in China but had immigrated to Australia and Canada, before arriving in America at eleven. In America, I moved between two different states, three different cities. I transferred elementary and middle schools. For high school, I attended what was then America's number one high school, according to USA Today, a newspaper my father read religiously. Then I went to a college where I don't think I slept more than four hours a night. I was premed and went down that path so far that I had taken the MCAT, gone on the interview circuit, and was considering offers before taking a much needed year off. During that year, I slept, worked for a crazy boss, and discovered tequila. I also wrote.

Weike Wang WELCOME GLIMMER TRAIN STORIES WRITERS ASK WRITER & READER COMMENTS SIGNIFICANT RESOURCES HISTORY BULLETIN ARCHIVES WINNERS & FINALISTS CONTACT US Glimmer Train Press, Inc. PO Box 80430 Portland, Oregon 97280 USA Copyright © 1990-2026 Weike Wang --> Weike Wang is the author of the novel Chemistry  (Knopf) and her short fiction has been published in Glimmer Train , the Alaska Quarterly Review , Ploughshares , Kenyon Review , and Redivider . She has taught at Boston University, and Gotham Writers in New York. She holds a BA in chemistry from Harvard University, an SM and SD f

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