Alyssa Wong

Alyssa Wong
Born	Surprise, Arizona, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Genre	Speculative fiction
Website
www.crashwong.net

Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. They are a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award. ^[1]

Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University, ^[2] graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts. ^[3] In July 2018, they were hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch . ^[4] Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020, the 2022 Deadpool and Iron Fist series, as well as the Alligator Loki webtoon series on Marvel Unlimited, ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]} and Psylocke (since 2024).

Personal life

Wong is queer and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns. ^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

• The High Republic: Escape from Valo (2024) ^[10]

Chapbooks

• A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (2016)

Short fiction

• "The Fisher Queen" (2014)
• "Scarecrow" (2014)
• "Santos de Sampaguitas" (2014)
• "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" (2015)
• "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" (2016)
• "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" (2016)
• "Rabbit Heart" (2016)
• "Natural Skin" (2016)
• "The White Dragon" (2016)
• "Your Bones Will Not Be Unknown" (2016)
• "God Product" (2017)
• "A Clamor of Bones" (2017)
• "All the Time We've Left to Spend" (2018)
• "What My Mother Left Me" (2018)
• "Olivia's Table" (2018)
• "What You Left Behind" (2019)
• "Wolf Trap", From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, (Del Rey, August 2023)

Poems

• "For the Gardener's Daughter" (2015)

Essays

• "Here's How It Goes" (2015)
• "Buzzword" (2016)
• "The H Word: The Darkest, Truest Mirrors" (2016)
• "They Love Me Not: How Fictional Villains Saved My Life" (2016)

Comics

DC

• DC The Doomed and the Damned #1 (with Travis G. Moore, Saladin Ahmed, Marv Wolfman, John Arcudi, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert, Garth Ennis, Amedeo Turturro, and Brandon Thomas, 2020)
• Sensational Wonder Woman #6 (2021)
• Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1 (with Tim Seeley, Dennis Culver and A.L. Kaplan, 2022)
• Spirit World #1–6 (2023)

Marvel

• Aero #1–12 (2019)
• Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery of Madame Huang (2021)
• Alligator Loki #1–48 (with Bob Quinn, 2022–present)
• Captain Marvel (vol. 11) #1–10 (2023-2024)
• Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3 (with Karla Pacheco and Dan Slott, 2021)
• Deadpool (vol. 8) #1–10 (2022–2023)
• Future Fight Firsts:
  • White Fox one-shot (2019)
  • Luna Snow one-shot (2019)
  • Crescent and Io one-shot (2019)
• Iron Fist #1–5 (2022)
• Psylocke (vol. 2) #1– (2024–present)
• The Legend of Shang-Chi #1 (2021)
• Shang-Chi Infinity Comic (with Nathan Stockman, 2021)
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1–40 (2020–2024)
• Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters – Boushh #1 (2021)

Awards

• 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist), ^[11] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist), ^[12] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (finalist), ^[13] for "The Fisher Queen". ^[14]
• 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (winner), ^[11] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (winner), ^[15] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist), ^[16] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist), ^[17] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction, ^[18] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". ^[2]
• 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (finalist) ^[19] (As well, an analysis by Io9 indicated that, if not for the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Wong would have also been a finalist for the 2015 award.) ^[20]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (winner), ^[21] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (finalist), ^{[22] [23]} 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (finalist) ^[24] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". ^[25]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist), ^[21] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist), ^[22] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (finalist) ^[24] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". ^[26]

References

1. "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". ISFDB . Retrieved September 30, 2019.
2. "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. October 14, 2015. Archived from the original on June 21, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
3. "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
4. Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018). "Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong". Heroes Never Die . Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
5. Rocket, Stubby the (October 31, 2019). "Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic". Tor.com. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
6. "'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series – Exclusive". StarWars.com. January 23, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
7. Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
8. Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
9. Alyssa Wong (they/them) [@crashwong] (October 11, 2022). "Coming out is a process, so be patient with yourself. I grew up thinking I had to stay in the closet, but my life has opened up since coming out as queer and non-binary" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
10. "Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo by Daniel José Older, Alyssa Wong: 9781368093804 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
11. "Nebula Awards – SFWA". SFWA. November 25, 2009. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
12. "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on July 4, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
13. "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. November 8, 2015. Archived from the original on June 13, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
14. "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
15. "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
16. "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
17. "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. May 3, 2016. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
18. "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
19. "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
20. This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
21. "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. June 24, 2017. Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
22. "2016 – The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
23. "Alyssa Wong Past Nominations and Wins". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
24. "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. December 31, 2016. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
25. "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". Uncanny Magazine. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
26. "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". Tor.com. March 2, 2016. Archived from the original on July 1, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.

External links

• Official website
• Alyssa Wong at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Awards
Preceded by Scott Nicolay	World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner 2016	Succeeded by G. V. Anderson