Frances Hwang is an American fiction writer born in Falls Church, VA. Her story collection, Transparency (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Company, 2007), received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MacDowell, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Colgate University. Her work has been read as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space and has appeared in Best New American Voices, Glimmer Train, Tin House, AGNI Online, and Subtropics. She teaches at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, IN.
Portrait by Alice Chen
