Jane Wong
{{Short description|American poet and professor}}
{{For|the Hong Kong-American technology blogger and app researcher|Jane Manchun Wong}}
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| alma_mater = University of Washington, Bard College, University of Iowa
| occupation = Poet, memoirist, professor
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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 has been published in Best American Poetry 2015 and Best New Poets 2012.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thestranger.com/books/2016/10/19/24630331/seattle-poet-jane-wongs-hard-work-pays-off-in-her-debut-collection-overpour|title=Seattle Poet Jane Wong's Hard Work Pays Off in Her Debut Collection, Overpour|work=The Stranger|access-date=2017-05-23|language=en}} Wong grew up in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, where her parents owned a Chinese restaurant, and where Jane remembers much of her childhood.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cityartsonline.com/articles/seattle-authors-you-should-know-jane-wong|title=Seattle Authors You Should Know: Jane Wong|date=2014-07-28|work=City Arts|access-date=2017-05-23|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317173325/http://www.cityartsonline.com/articles/seattle-authors-you-should-know-jane-wong|archive-date=2017-03-17|url-status=usurped}} In 2023, she released her memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.{{Cite news|url=http://www.cityartsonline.com/articles/jane-wong-poet-author-keen-observer|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170622030645/http://www.cityartsonline.com/articles/jane-wong-poet-author-keen-observer|url-status=usurped|archive-date=June 22, 2017|title=Jane Wong: Poet, Author, Keen Observer|date=2016-12-23|work=City Arts|access-date=2017-05-23|language=en}}
Background
Wong received her B.A. in English from Bard College,{{Cite web |last=Relations |first=Bard Public |title=Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, Memoir by Poet Jane Wong '07, Reviewed in the New York Times and Boston Globe |url=https://www.bard.edu/news/details/?id=19373&prefurl=jane-wong-07-meet-me-tonight-in-atlantic-city-2023-05-31 |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=www.bard.edu |language=en}} her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington.{{Cite news|url=https://www.plu.edu/english/staff/jane-wong/|title=Jane Wong {{!}} Department of English {{!}} Pacific Lutheran University|work=Pacific Lutheran University|access-date=2017-05-23|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104155510/http://www.plu.edu/english/staff/jane-wong/|archive-date=2016-11-04|url-status=dead}}
Awards and honors
- 2022 Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award
- 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review{{Cite web|url=http://aprweb.org/news/2016/07/05/jane-wong-awarded-2016-stanley-kunitz-memorial-prize|title=American Poetry Review – News|website=aprweb.org|language=en|access-date=2017-05-23}}
- 2015 Best American Poetry{{Cite web|url=http://www.bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=29|title=The Best American Poetry 2015, Guest Edited by Sherman Alexie|website=www.bestamericanpoetry.com|access-date=2017-05-23}}
- 2012 Best New Poets{{Cite web|url=http://bestnewpoets.blogspot.com/2012/08/best-new-poets-2012-final-fifty.html|title=Best New Poets: Best New Poets 2012 Final Fifty|last=Jazzy|date=2012-08-14|website=Best New Poets|access-date=2017-05-23}}
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
- Kundiman Fellowship{{Cite web|url=http://kundiman.org/fellows/|title=Fellows|website=Kundiman|language=en-US|access-date=2017-05-23}}
- 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholarship{{Cite web|url=http://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=1263|title=Bard Press Release {{!}} Bard Student Jane Wong Wins Fulbright|last=College|first=Bard|website=www.bard.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-05-23}}
In 2016, Wong was featured among ten artists to mark the year to come, together with painter Ari Glass, dancer David Rue, and others.{{cite web|title=The 2017 Future List - City Arts Magazine|url=http://www.cityartsmagazine.com/2017-future-list/|website=City Arts Magazine|date=23 December 2016}}
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. {{Cite news |date=2023-05-14 |title=Two Memoirs of Chinese American Hunger, Three Decades Apart |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/books/orphan-bachelors-fae-myenne-ng-meet-me-tonight-in-atlantic-city-jane-wong.html |access-date=2023-08-19 |last1=Wang |first1=Qian Julie }}{{Cite news |title=Book review: 'Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City,' by Jane Wong |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/02/jane-wong-meet-tonight-atlantic-city/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}{{Cite web |date=2023-05-16 |title=Tenderness and Ferocity Go Hand in Hand: A Conversation with Jane Wong |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tenderness-and-ferocity-go-hand-in-hand-a-conversation-with-jane-wong/ |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books |language=en}}{{cite web |last=Lin |first=Francie |date=May 25, 2023 |title=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 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/25/arts/jane-wongs-meet-me-tonight-atlantic-city-is-an-intimate-portrait-working-class-chinese-american-familys-scars-glories/ |access-date=2023-08-19 |website=BostonGlobe.com }}
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Category:American women writers
Category:American poets of Asian descent
Category:Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Category:Educators from Seattle
Category:People from Tinton Falls, New Jersey
Category:University of Washington alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American women
Category:Memoirists from New Jersey