Jane Wong

Author of "How to Not Be Afraid of Everything" & "Overpour"

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Seattle, WA, USA
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Jane Wong Biography

Jane Wong is the author of "How to Not Be Afraid of Everything" from Alice James Books (2021) and "Overpour" from Action Books (2016). Her debut memoir, "Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City," is forthcoming from Tin House in 2023.

She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in places such as McSweeney's, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home.

A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, 4Culture, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay, the Jentel Foundation, SAFTA, Mineral School, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Loghaven, and others.

The recipient of the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Award for Washington artists, her first solo art show “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” was exhibited at the Frye Art Museum in 2019. Her artwork will also be a part of “Nourish,” an exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery in 2022.

Jane Wong Videos

  • Writing Deliciously: The Poetry of Food with Jane Wong
    In this craft talk, delve into the intimate sensory memories and sociopolitical implications that food evokes with poet Jane Wong. How can writing...
  • My Writing School was a Chinese Restaurant | Jane Wong | TEDx
    It’s true that poet Jane Wong holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, but where she really learned to write, she explains, is the Chinese...
  • Going toward the ghost | Jane Wong | TEDxPineCrestSchool
    Jane takes us from the Great Leap Forward to going toward the ghost, arguing that her role as an Asian American poet is to bear witness to a "history...

Jane Wong Books

  • How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
    How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
  • Overpour
    Overpour

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