It’s true that poet Jane Wong holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, but where she really learned to write, she explains, is the Chinese restaurant she grew up in. Descriptions of her youthful experiences take you there as she relates the sight, sound, sense and smell of the place and the people with whom she grew up.
Jane Wong is a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and Kundiman Fellow.
The recipient of The American Poetry Review’s 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, her poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, The Volta, Third Coast, and the anthologies Best American Poetry 2015 (Scribner), Best New Poets 2012 (The University of Virginia Press) and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press). Her chapbooks include Dendrochronology (dancing girl press), Kudzu Does Not Stop (Organic Weapon Arts), and Impossible Map (Fact-Simile). She is the author of OVERPOUR (Action Books). Currently, she is a visiting assistant professor at Pacific Lutheran University.
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