Hatchling

Rucy Cui is a writer from San Jose, California, who has also called Texas, Wyoming, and the south of France home. Her stories have been awarded the Barry Hannah Prize and the Bennington Fiction Prize. Her nonfiction appears in Lonely Planet. A 2024–26 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she has received support from Monson Arts, Ucross Foundation, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and other organizations. She is currently at work on a novel.