Rowena Leong Singer is published or forthcoming in The New York Times, Black Warrior Review, Narrative Magazine, and KQED’s Perspectives. She is the recipient of the grand prize in literary fiction for the Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest, a semi-finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest, and a runner up and fellowship recipient for the International Literary Seminar Fiction Contest. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she was awarded the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction.