Lydia Millet is a writer of fiction, opinion pieces and other ephemera. Her 2020 novel
A Children’s Bible was a Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and one of
The New York Times Book Review’s Best 10 Books of 2020.
2022 Science + Literature Selection Committee (Chair)
Lydia Millet is a writer of fiction, opinion pieces, and other ephemera. Her 2020 novel A Children’s Bible was a Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and one of the New York Times Book Review’s Best 10 Books of 2020. In 2019 she received an Award of Merit for the Short Story from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her 2010 story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Since 1999 she has been an editor at the Center for Biological Diversity, a group dedicated to fighting extinction and climate change. She lives in the Arizona desert.
Weike Wang is the author of
Chemistry and
Joan is Okay. She is the recipient of the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award and a Whiting Award, and is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her work has appeared in
Ploughshares,
The New Yorker,
The Best American Short Stories 2019, and
The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019.
2023 Science + Literature Selection Committee
Weike Wang is the author of Chemistry and Joan is Okay. She is the recipient of the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award and a Whiting Award, and is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories 2019, and The O. Henry Prize Stories 2019. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard University. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and Barnard College.
