Simon Han

Simon Han is the author of Nights When nothing Happened (Riverhead Books). His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Texas Observer, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Electric Literature, and LitHub. The recipient of several fiction awards and arts fellowships, he was born in Tianjin, China, and raised in various cities in Texas. Simon is a former fiction reader at Guernica.

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Fiction Family & Relationships

Nights When Nothing Happened

An excerpt of the novel by Simon Han November 6, 2020

Before long, he grew desperate. After consulting in secret with a village grannie who still carried on with the old beliefs, he traveled west until he found a woman known as the Queen Mother.

Fiction Asia & Oceania Family & Relationships

The Tale of the Hag

By Simon Han March 1, 2016

Her feet were brown. She ambled closer. Darling, I’m you, she said. I’m you from the future.