In the spring of 2019, Jane Wong was honored by receiving the Womxn of Color Empowerment Award at WWU. Her first solo art exhibition, “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly,” ran from June-September 2019 at the Frye Art Museum, and was featured on Hyperallergic. Also during the summer, she was an artist-in-residence via the Jentel Foundation, SAFTA, and Sarabande Books. Recent poems and essays have appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit, Apogee, The Common, Shenandoah, POETRY, Orion, The Yale Review, and others. Her second book, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything from Alice James is forthcoming next year. And she’s busy working on a third book of poems and a collection of essays. This past fall, she was thrilled to have a poem alongside a former WWU student of hers, Tessie Monique (Class of 2018), in The Lantern Review.
