Jane Wong

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Jane Wong
Wong at AWP 2025
Alma mater	University of Washington, Bard College, University of Iowa
Occupation(s)	Poet, memoirist, professor
Website	janewongwriter.com

Jane Wong is an American poet and professor at Western Washington University. She is the author of the full-length poetry collections Overpour and How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, and she has been published in Best American Poetry 2015 and Best New Poets 2012. ^[1] Wong grew up in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, where her parents owned a Chinese restaurant and where Jane remembers much of her childhood. ^[2] In 2023, she released her memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington. ^[3]

Background

Wong received her B.A. in English from Bard College, ^[4] her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. ^[5]

Awards and honors

• 2022 Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award
• 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review ^[6]
• 2015 Best American Poetry ^[7]
• 2012 Best New Poets ^[8]
• Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
• Kundiman Fellowship ^[9]
• 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholarship ^[10]

In 2016, Wong was featured among ten artists to mark the year to come, together with painter Ari Glass, dancer David Rue, and others. ^[11]

Works

• Kudzu Does Not Stop, United States : Organic Weapon Arts, 2012. ISBN   9780982710647, OCLC   862072312
• Overpour, Notre Dame, Indiana : Action Books, 2016. ISBN   9780900575914, OCLC   958799445
• How Not to Be Afraid of Everything, Alice James Books, 2021.
• Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, Portland, Oregon: Tin House, 2023. ^{[12] [13] [14] [15]}

References

1. "Seattle Poet Jane Wong's Hard Work Pays Off in Her Debut Collection, Overpour". The Stranger. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
2. "Seattle Authors You Should Know: Jane Wong". City Arts. 2014-07-28. Archived from the original on 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
3. "Jane Wong: Poet, Author, Keen Observer". City Arts. 2016-12-23. Archived from the original on June 22, 2017. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
4. Relations, Bard Public. "Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, Memoir by Poet Jane Wong '07, Reviewed in the New York Times and Boston Globe". www.bard.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
5. "Jane Wong | Department of English | Pacific Lutheran University". Pacific Lutheran University. Archived from the original on 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
6. "American Poetry Review – News". aprweb.org. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
7. "The Best American Poetry 2015, Guest Edited by Sherman Alexie". www.bestamericanpoetry.com. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
8. Jazzy (2012-08-14). "Best New Poets: Best New Poets 2012 Final Fifty". Best New Poets. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
9. "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
10. College, Bard. "Bard Press Release | Bard Student Jane Wong Wins Fulbright". www.bard.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-23.
11. "The 2017 Future List - City Arts Magazine". City Arts Magazine. 23 December 2016.
12. Wang, Qian Julie (2023-05-14). "Two Memoirs of Chinese American Hunger, Three Decades Apart". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
13. "Book review: 'Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City,' by Jane Wong". The Washington Post.
14. "Tenderness and Ferocity Go Hand in Hand: A Conversation with Jane Wong". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2023-05-16. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
15. Lin, Francie (May 25, 2023). "Jane Wong's 'Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City' is an intimate portrait of a working-class Chinese American family's scars and glories - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.