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Simon Han is the author of Nights When Nothing Happened. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Texas Observer, Guernica, The Iowa Review, Electric Literature, and LitHub. Born in Tianjin, China and raised in various cities in Texas, he teaches creative writing at Tufts University.

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