Alyssa Wong

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?203739|title=Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong|website=ISFDB|access-date=September 30, 2019}}

Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University,{{Cite web|url=http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers/|title=Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers|date=October 14, 2015|website=Nightmare Magazine|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160621132820/http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers/|archive-date=June 21, 2016|url-status=live}} graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pw.org/content/north_carolina_state_university|publisher=North Carolina State University|title=Poets & Writers|website=www.pw.org|language=en|access-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018013452/https://www.pw.org/content/north_carolina_state_university|archive-date=October 18, 2017|url-status=live}} In July 2018, they were hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.{{cite web | url = https://www.heroesneverdie.com/2018/8/1/17639448/overwatch-writing-blizzard-nebula-award-winner-alyssa-wong | title = Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong | first = Austen | last = Goslin | date = August 1, 2018 | access-date = August 1, 2018 | work = Heroes Never Die | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180801221012/https://www.heroesneverdie.com/2018/8/1/17639448/overwatch-writing-blizzard-nebula-award-winner-alyssa-wong | archive-date = August 1, 2018 | url-status = live }} Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020 and for the 2022 Deadpool series.{{Cite web|last=Rocket|first=Stubby the|date=October 31, 2019|title=Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic|url=https://www.tor.com/2019/10/31/nebula-award-winner-alyssa-wong-to-write-new-star-wars-doctor-aphra-comic/|access-date=February 8, 2021|website=Tor.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|date=January 23, 2020|title='You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series – Exclusive|url=https://www.starwars.com/news/alyssa-wong-doctor-aphra|access-date=February 8, 2021|website=StarWars.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dar |first=Taimur |date=August 10, 2022 |title=Syndicated Comics |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/deadpool-ongoing-series-alyssa-wong-martin-coccolo-announced/ |access-date=October 31, 2022 |website=The Beat |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dar |first=Taimur |date=August 10, 2022 |title=Syndicated Comics |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/deadpool-ongoing-series-alyssa-wong-martin-coccolo-announced/ |access-date=May 4, 2023 |website=The Beat |language=en-US}}

Personal life

Wong is queer and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.{{Cite tweet|number=1579903173283942400|user=crashwong|title=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|date=October 11, 2022|author=Alyssa Wong (they/them)}}

Bibliography

= Novels =

The High Republic: Escape from Valo (2024){{Cite web |title=Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo by Daniel José Older, Alyssa Wong: 9781368093804 {{!}} PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727520/star-wars-the-high-republic-escape-from-valo-by-daniel-jose-older-alyssa-wong/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |website=PenguinRandomhouse.com |language=en-US}}

= 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)
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),{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/|title=Nebula Awards – SFWA|website=SFWA|date=November 25, 2009|language=en-US|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509222343/http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/|archive-date=May 9, 2012|url-status=live}} 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),{{Cite web |url=http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2014-award-winners/ |publisher=The Shirley Jackson Awards |title=2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners |website=www.shirleyjacksonawards.org |access-date=July 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704162629/http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2014-award-winners/ |archive-date=July 4, 2017 |url-status=live }} 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (finalist),{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/11/world-fantasy-awards-winners-2015/|title=World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015|website=Locus Online|date=November 8, 2015|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613235211/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/11/world-fantasy-awards-winners-2015/|archive-date=June 13, 2016|url-status=live}} for "The Fisher Queen".{{Cite web|url=http://fu-gen.org/crash/fisherqueen-wong.htm|title=The Fisher Queen|website=fu-gen.org|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509021727/http://fu-gen.org/crash/fisherqueen-wong.htm|archive-date=May 9, 2016|url-status=dead}}
2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (winner), 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (winner),{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfadb.com/World_Fantasy_Awards_2016|title=sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016|website=www.sfadb.com|access-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170602145934/http://www.sfadb.com/World_Fantasy_Awards_2016|archive-date=June 2, 2017|url-status=live}} 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),{{Cite web |url=http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2015-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/ |publisher=The Shirley Jackson Awards |title=2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners |website=www.shirleyjacksonawards.org |access-date=July 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702032934/http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2015-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/ |archive-date=July 2, 2017 |url-status=live }} 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/05/2016-locus-awards-finalists/|title=2016 Locus Awards Finalists|website=Locus Online|date=May 3, 2016|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616092045/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/05/2016-locus-awards-finalists|archive-date=June 16, 2016|url-status=live}} 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,{{Cite web|url=http://stokercon2016.horror.org/?page_id=30|title=The Bram Stoker Awards|website=StokerCon 2016|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616193051/http://stokercon2016.horror.org/?page_id=30|archive-date=June 16, 2016|url-status=live}} for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".
2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (finalist){{Cite web|url=http://midamericon2.org/home/hugo-awards-and-wsfs/2016-hugo-finalists/|title=2016 Hugo Finalists|website=MidAmericon II|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606090843/http://midamericon2.org/home/hugo-awards-and-wsfs/2016-hugo-finalists/|archive-date=June 6, 2016|url-status=usurped}} (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.)[https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-is-what-the-2015-hugo-ballot-should-have-been-1725967147 This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been], by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (winner),{{Cite web|url=http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/06/do-not-touch-2017-locus-awards-winners/|title=2017 Locus Awards Winners|date=June 24, 2017|website=www.locusmag.com|publisher=Locus Online News|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625031813/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/06/do-not-touch-2017-locus-awards-winners/|archive-date=June 25, 2017|url-status=live|access-date=June 25, 2017}} 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (finalist),{{Cite web|url=http://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2016/|title=2016 – The Nebula Awards|website=The Nebula Awards|language=en-US|access-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612063408/http://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2016/|archive-date=June 12, 2017|url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Alyssa Wong Past Nominations and Wins |url=https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nominees/alyssa-wong/ |access-date=May 4, 2023 |website=The Nebula Awards® |language=en-US}} 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (finalist){{Cite web|url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/|title=2017 Hugo Awards|website=The Hugo Awards|date=December 31, 2016|access-date=April 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812030011/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/|archive-date=August 12, 2017|url-status=live}} for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".{{Cite news|url=http://uncannymagazine.com/article/youll-surely-drown-stay/|title=You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay|work=Uncanny Magazine|access-date=March 6, 2017|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307123843/http://uncannymagazine.com/article/youll-surely-drown-stay/|archive-date=March 7, 2017|url-status=live}}
2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist), 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist), 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (finalist) for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".{{Cite web|url=http://www.tor.com/2016/03/02/a-fist-of-permutations-in-lightning-and-wildflowers-alyssa-wong/|title=A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers|date=March 2, 2016|website=Tor.com|access-date=July 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701213624/http://www.tor.com/2016/03/02/a-fist-of-permutations-in-lightning-and-wildflowers-alyssa-wong/|archive-date=July 1, 2017|url-status=live}}