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Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER, which was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. It won the APALA Honor Award and Walter Honor Award, was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Her latest novel, AN ARROW TO THE MOON, was a Locus Award finalist, an instant national bestseller, and featured on NPR’s Best Books of 2022. Emily is currently on the faculty of the creative writing MFA program at The New School, and has taught at Harvard University, New York University, and Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

LONG BIO (210 words):

Emily X.R. Pan is the New York Times bestselling author of THE ASTONISHING COLOR OF AFTER, which was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 Best YA Books of All Time. It won the APALA Honor Award and Walter Honor Award, was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, among other accolades. Her latest novel, AN ARROW TO THE MOON, was a Locus Award finalist, an instant national bestseller, a CALA Award nominee, and featured on NPR’s Best Books of 2022. Emily is currently on the faculty of the creative writing MFA program at The New School. She has also taught at various other institutions, including Harvard University, New York University, Vermont College of Fine Arts, The Center for Fiction, 92nd Street Y, and Tin House. Originally born in the Midwestern United States, Emily now divides her time between New York and New Jersey. She received her MFA in fiction from the NYU Creative Writing Program, where she was a Goldwater Fellow and editor-in-chief of Washington Square Review, and later went on to become the founding editor-in-chief of Bodega Magazine. Emily belongs to Kiwi the strangely-proportioned dog and Pippin the Hognose snake. You can find her on social media: @exrpan.

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