Winner of the 2024 Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, "Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City" is an incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.
How can writing about food open up evocative spaces of comfort, family, ancestral lineage, memory, and shared rituals? How can writing through and about food strengthen our communities and open up our creative craft? Our session will inspire you with sensory writing prompts and opportunities for feedback, connection, and breaking bread/sharing.
Wong holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the UW and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at WWU. She is also the author of two collections of poetry: “How to Not Be Afraid of Everything’” and “Overpour.” She grew up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore and lives in Seattle.
The Washington State Book Awards are a project of the The Washington Center for the Book (an affiliate of The Library of Congress Center for the Book administered by Washington State Library).
This event was presented by the Washington Center for the Book (administered by Washington State Library), The Seattle Public Library, and Whatcom County Library System.
