Jemimah Wei

JEMIMAH WEI was born and raised in Singapore and splits her time between Singapore and the United States. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, is a winner of the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, and formerly held the Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Felipe P. De Alba Fellowship at Stanford University and Columbia University, respectively. Her highly anticipated debut novel, The Original Daughter, debuted at #1 on The Straits Times bestseller list and is a Good Morning America Book Club pick and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. The Original Daughter is a Country Award Winner of the Chommanard International Women's Literary Award, was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and was named a Best Book of Spring by TIME, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Vogue, and more. https://jemmawei.com/