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‘An adolescence in an extraordinarily competitive boarding school meant that Andover broke me and made me.’
Andover Magazine, December 2025
‘The Swimmers’ by Stephanie Han opens the Honolulu Noir anthology edited by Chris McKinney.
“…another standout is Stephanie Han’s The Swimmers…” Publishers Weekly
Winner of the 2024 Honolulu Book Awards Book of the Year (about Hawai’i)
Contributing editor. Columnist. Essayist: Sports Mom Odyssey (nominated for Best American essays 2023)
Nantucket’s Laundry, 1985 from Swimming in Hong Kong
Photo by Zac Tocher
Excerpts from ‘Passing in the Middle Kingdom’ Wilder Prize finalist
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