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‘Schiele reminds me that beauty is not a collection of traits, it’s a way of seeing.’

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is an author and editor.

Biography

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You, Starling Days and The Sleep Watcher, and the editor of the anthologies Go Home! and Dog Hearted. She has won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her work has been a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Great Read.

Rowan is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Gladstone’s Library and Kundiman. Her short work appeared in Granta the Paris Review and the Atlantic among other places.

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