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Jennifer Cody Epstein


Photo Credit: Julie Brown

"Wunderland"  (Crown-Penguin/Random House) April 23, 2019

Real Fiction Radio Broadcast: July 10, 2019 (Re-Air July 17)


Jennifer's prior works include The Gods of Heavenly Punishment, winner of the 2014 Asian Pacific Association of Librarians Honor award for outstanding fiction, as well as the international bestseller The Painter from Shanghai.


She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Nation (Thailand), Self and Mademoiselle magazines, and the NBC and HBO networks, working in Kyoto, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok as well as Washington D.C. and New York. She has taught at Columbia University in New York and Doshisha University in Kyoto, and has an MFA from Columbia, a Masters of International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA in Asian Studies/English from Amherst College.

Jennifer currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, filmmaker Michael Epstein and two daughters.



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