Fae Myenne Ng

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Fae Myenne Ng
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Fae Myenne Ng at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Born (1956-12-02) December 2, 1956 (age 67)
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.

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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]

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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".
  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.

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