Rachel Heng (born 1988) is a Singaporean novelist and the author of literary dystopian novel Suicide Club (2018) and award-winning The Great Reclamation (2023).
Her fiction has received recognition from the Pushcart Prize, the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, and the New American Voices Award by the Institute for Immigration Research, and she has been profiled by the BBC, Electric Literature, and other publications.
[2] Heng's novel was named a most anticipated novel of the summer by The Huffington Post, Gizmodo, The Irish Times, The Millions, Bustle, Nylon and Elle.
[16] Heng's short fiction has been published widely in literary journals such as The New Yorker,[17] Glimmer Train, Tin House, Prairie Schooner, The Offing, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and The Minnesota Review.
[25] She was listed by The Independent as one of ten emerging authors to look out for in 2018[26] and has been profiled by outlets such as the BBC,[2] Electric Literature[27] and The Straits Times.