Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Author of the novel Harmless Like You. Winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her second novel, Starling Days is out in April 2020. Short work has appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Atlantic, The Harvard Review, and NPR's Selected Shorts.

Stories

Cover Photo: an illustration of clouds

An Agnostic’s Longing: A Comic

We’ve listed the names we get called and the names we call ourselves. Some feel true. Others give us aches.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Oct 09, 2019

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Is the Green You See, the Green I See?

As my brain absorbed these other names, the colors seemed to shift. The names themselves were changing how I saw the colors.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Sep 05, 2018

Arts & Culture | Book Outtakes

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The Cactus Mother: Nine Plants, Zero Kids

I used to tell people I needed to write a novel before I could consider offspring. I have written one novel. I am considering purchasing a fern.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Jan 22, 2018

People | Ritual

Cover Photo: photo by Annie Guilloret/flickr

The Woman Scared of Her Own Kimono

I feel unworthy to wear the uniform of my inheritance.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Jan 10, 2017

Things | What We Wear