Kaitlin Solimine
author : Kaitlin SolimineKaitlin Solimine is the author of debut novel, Empire of Glass, a 2017 Center for Fiction First Novel Award finalist. Raised in New England, Solimine has considered China a second home for almost two decades. While majoring in East Asian Studies at Harvard University, she was a Harvard-Yenching scholar and wrote and edited Let’s Go: China (St. Martin’s Press). In 2006-2007, she was a U.S. Department of State Fulbright Creative Arts Fellow in China where she began work on her forthcoming novel, Empire of Glass. She was the Donald E. Axinn Scholar in Fiction at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (2010) and graduated from the MFA program in writing at UC-San Diego (2011). She is the 2012 recipient of the Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award and has been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center.\n\nHer writing has been published in National Geographic News, The Wall Street Journal, Guernica Magazine, Kartika Review, The Huffington Post, The World of Chinese Magazine, China Daily, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and numerous anthologies.Her non-fiction work centers around environmental and sustainability issues, travel and exploration, expatriate culture, and US-China relations.\n\nSolimine is the co-founder of academic media platform Hippo Reads and recently left Singapore for San Francisco where she lives with her husband and daughter. She is currently at work on a second novel that examines themes of childbirth, midwifery, and climate change.\n View more >>Kaitlin Solimine Book Series