Helene Wecker is the author of the novel The Golem and the Jinni (HarperCollins, 2013), which received the 2014 Mythopoeic Award, the 2014 Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and the 2014 Cabell First Novelist Award, and was a finalist for the Nebula Award and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Her fiction has appeared in Catamaran Literary Reader (2013) and Joyland (2013). Wecker holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia University.  

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