Fan Wu

Fan Wu grew up on a farm in southern China, where her parents were exiled during the Cultural Revolution. She moved to the United States in 1997 for graduate studies at Stanford University, and started writing in 2002. February Flowers is her first novel and has been translated into six languages. Her short stories have appeared in Granta and the Missouri Review. She writes in both English and Chinese, and she is currently working on a second novel and a short story collection. She divides her time between northern California and China.