How Much the Heart Can Hold - Seven Stories on Love

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You, Starling Days and The Sleep Watcher. She has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her work has been a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Great Read. Rowan was the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Gladstone's Library and Kundiman.
Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review and The Atlantic among other places. Grace McCleen's first novel, The Land of Decoration, was published in 2012 and was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize for the best first novel of the year. It was also chosen for Richard & Judy's Book Club and won her the Betty Trask Prize in 2013. Her second novel, The Professor of Poetry, was published by Sceptre in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.
She read English at the University of Oxford and has an MA from York, and currently lives in London.