Weina Dai Randel is the internationally bestselling, award-winning author of six historical novels, including The Lost Kingdom of Daughters, forthcoming in August, 2026, and The Master Jeweler. Her novel, The Last Rose of Shanghai, was a Wall Street Journal bestseller and optioned for film, and Night Angels was longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Awards.  She is the winner of the RWA RITA® Award, a National Jewish Book Awards finalist and a two-time Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction nominee. Her novels have been translated into seventeen foreign languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hebrew.

The first Asian American novelist who intertwined Chinese history with the Jewish diaspora in Shanghai during WWII, Weina was frequently invited to speak at universities, libraries, conferences, book festivals, orthodox and reformed synagogues, and other organizations in the US.

Born in China, Weina came to the United States at twenty-four, when she switched to English and began to speak, write and dream in her second language. She holds an MA in English from Texas Woman’s University in Texas. She has worked as an adjunct professor and also as the subject-matter expert for Southern New Hampshire University’s online MFA program, where she designed the curriculum for the romance genre. Interviews with Weina have appeared on WFAA’s Good Morning Texas and in such publications asWorld Literature Today, Texas Jewish Post, The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

After living in Texas for years, Weina now resides in Boston with her family.