Kat Tang is a former lawyer turned fiction writer with an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, Electric Literature, The Margins, Pigeon Pages, Driftwood Press, among others. She spends most of her time thinking about writing and sometimes she even writes.

Her debut novel, FIVE-STAR STRANGER, is out with Scribner (imprint of Simon & Schuster) and has been featured on NPR’s Weekend Edition and People Magazine, received starred reviews from Kirkus and Booklist, been selected as a Belletrist Book Club pick, an Oprah’s Book Club Must Read, and an Indie Next pick among others. 

She is hard at work on a second novel.