Simon Han

Biography

Simon Han is the author of the novel Nights When Nothing Happened (Riverhead, 2020). His stories and essays have appeared in the Atlantic, the Texas Observer, Guernica, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Tufts University. 

 

See Work

FICTION / Fall 2022

The Trick

By Simon Han ,  Illustrations by Jamiel Law

Behold: William’s father slices his mother in half. He shackles her to the bottom of a water tank. He packs her inside a cannon and lights the fuse.

Illustration by Jamiel Law
ESSAYS / Winter 2020

The Long Fall

By Simon Han ,  Illustration by Ben Jones

The Weird Dream That Was 2020

Illustration by Ben Jones