Rowena Leong Singer
Rowena Leong Singer is an award-winning Chinese-Filipino writer and editor whose work appears in The New York Times, North American Review, Black Warrior Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is the grand prize winner in literary fiction for the Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest and a semifinalist for the Books Like Us First Novel Contest by Simon & Schuster and for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where she was awarded the Barry Hannah Merit Scholarship in Fiction. She is an associate editor at CRAFT, a director of Rooted & Written, and a member of The Writers Grotto.
Where to find me at the festival
May 30, 2026 -
Preserving Ancestral Knowledge as BIPOC Writers
