Simon Han is the author of the novel Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead Books, 2020), which was named a best book of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, and Texas Monthly. His stories and essays have appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Guernica, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, and elsewhere.
He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Toji Cultural Center, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. He has taught at the University of Tulsa and Vanderbilt University, where he received his M.F.A.
At MacDowell in 2018, Han worked on revisions for his debut novel, Nights When Nothing Happened. He had the good fortune of receiving an offer for the book during his first week at MacDowell. He also began work on a short story and fragments of a second novel.
In 2023, he finished a first draft of his novel-in-progress, Stone Faces. He will continue work on this project at the Willapa Bay AiR program in Summer 2023.
Portrait by Adam Murphy
