Fae Myenne Ng

Fae Myenne Ng
Fae Myenne Ng at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	(1956-12-02) December 2, 1956 (age 68) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education	University of California, Berkeley Columbia University (MFA)

Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2, ^[1] 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist and short story writer.

She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel Bone told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown. ^[2] Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute. ^[3] She has held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation. ^[4]

Life

She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China. ^[5] She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received her M.F.A. at Columbia University. Ng has supported herself by working as a waitress and at other temporary jobs. She teaches UC Berkeley AAADS 20C. ^[6]

Her short stories have appeared in The American Voice , Calyx , City Lights Review, Crescent Review, and Harper's Magazine . ^[7] She currently teaches at UC Berkeley and UCLA in the English and Asian American Studies departments. ^[8]

Awards

• nominated and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, for Bone
• grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• 2008 American Book Award for Steer Toward Rock
• 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[9]

Works

• Bone, Hyperion, 1993
• Steer Toward Rock . Hyperion. 2008. ISBN   978-0-7868-6097-5. Fae Myenne Ng.
• Orphan Bachelors. Grove, 2023. ISBN 978-0-8021-6222-9. ^[10]

Anthologies

• Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, ed. (1993). Charlie Chan is dead: an anthology of contemporary Asian American fiction. Penguin Books. ISBN   978-0-14-023111-3.
• Sylvia Watanabe; Carol Bruchac, eds. (1990). Home to stay: Asian American women's fiction . Greenfield Review Press. ISBN   978-0-912678-76-4.
• Shawn Wong, ed. (1996). Asian American literature: a brief introduction and anthology. HarperCollins College Pub. ISBN   978-0-673-46977-9.

References

1. "Fae Myenne Ng." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
2. "Voices from the Gaps".
3. "Ploughshares at Emerson College". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
4. "Fae Myenne Ng". 20 November 2010.
5. Guiyou Huang, ed. (2003). Asian American short story writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-313-32229-7.
6. Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook -. Greenwood. ISBN   0-313-30911-6.
7. "Fae Myenne Ng | Harper's Magazine".
8. "Fae Myenne Ng". Daily Bruin. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
9. "Fae Myenne Ng - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
10. "Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir by undefined". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-05-09.

Sources

• University of Minnesota biography and review
• "Author Interviews: Fae Myenne Ng", August 14, 2008

External links

• Author Interview regarding Bone Archived 2011-11-19 at the Wayback Machine
• http://faemyenneng.com/