Jack Wang

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Jack Wang is a Canadian writer from Vancouver, British Columbia, who won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award in 2021 for his debut short story collection We Two Alone. [1]

An associate professor of creative writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, he has also published several children's books jointly authored with his twin brother Holman Wang. [2]

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