Rita Chang-Eppig

Biography

Rita Chang-Eppig received her MFA from New York University. Her stories have appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Kenyon Review Online, Clarkesworld, Santa Monica Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Writers Grotto, and she will be a Steinbeck Fellow at the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies at San Jose State University starting in fall 2020. 

See Work

FICTION / Summer 2020

The Miracle Girl

By Rita Chang-Eppig ,  Illustrations by Aya Kakeda

On the first day of her stigmata, Xiao Chun’s palms bled so much that the school sent her home early. Xiao Xue sighed at this turn of events and gathered her things to follow her sister. Xiao Chun was already prettier, smarter, and more...