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Jemimah Wei

JEMIMAH WEI was born and raised in Singapore, and is currently a 2022-2024 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She is the recipient of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from Columbia University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Singapore’s National Arts Council, and more. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has been published in Guernica, Narrative, and Nimrod, among other publications. She was recently named one of Narrative’s “30 below 30” writers, recognized by the Best of the Net Anthologies, and is a Francine Ringold Award for New Writers honouree. For close to a decade, prior to moving to the US to earn an MFA at Columbia University where she was a Felipe P. De Alba Fellow, she worked as a host for various broadcast and digital channels, and has written and produced short films and travel guides for brands like Laneige, Airbnb, and Nikon.

https://jemmawei.com/

Books
Events

The Original Daughter: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

Jemimah Wei

Hardcover

May 06, 2025

Thu Feb 19 | 08:00 PM
Miami Book Fair & NBF Presents: An Evening with the 2025 5 Under 35 Honorees at Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL
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Thu Feb 19 | 06:30 PM
First Draft: A Literary Social with 5 Under 35 Honoree Jemimah Wei at Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Google Map

Books

The Original Daughter: A GMA Book Club Pick

A Novel

Jemimah Wei

Hardcover

May 06, 2025

Events

Thu Feb 19 | 08:00 PM
Miami Book Fair & NBF Presents: An Evening with the 2025 5 Under 35 Honorees at Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL
Google Map

Thu Feb 19 | 06:30 PM
First Draft: A Literary Social with 5 Under 35 Honoree Jemimah Wei at Books & Books
265 Aragon Ave
Coral Gables, FL 33134
Google Map