Jane Wong is the author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, a memoir (Tin House, 2023). She is also the author of two books of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books, 2016). She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Asian American Studies at Western Washington University and also serves as faculty at Randolph College’s low-residency MFA program. Wong holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa. Her poems can be found in places such as The Nation, Poem-a-day, Gulf Coast, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Believer, and others. Her essays have appeared in places such as Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and Want: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult). She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, the Fine Arts Work Center, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay, the Jentel Foundation, Ucross, MASS MoCa, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Loghaven, Vermont Studio Center, Kundiman, and others.
