Jane Wong

Jane Wong is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). Her poems and essays can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, the American Poetry Review, Poetry, AGNI, the Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s, and Ecotone. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from Harvard University’s Woodberry Poetry Room, the US Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, the Fine Arts Work Center, Middlebury’s Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay, the Jentel Foundation, Mineral School, and others. Her first solo art show, After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly, was exhibited at the Frye Art Museum in 2019. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Western Washington University.