Lucy Tan is the author of What We Were Promised, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by The Washington Post. Tan holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was winner of the August Derleth Prize. A recipient of support from the Kundiman and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Tan has published in journals such as McSweeney's, The Sun, and Ploughshares, where she was fiction winner of the Emerging Writer's Contest. She currently lives and writes in Seattle.
