Jane Wong’s second collection of poetry How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James, 2021) was longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry and was featured in The New York Times, NPR, Boston Globe, Shondaland, Publisher’s Weekly, and more. During her book tour, she performed at over 40 venues virtually and in-person, including the Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival, The Los Angeles Festival of Books, and more. Her debut memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, is forthcoming from Tin House in 2023. An interdisciplinary artist as well, she exhibited her poetry installation work alongside the artist duo Mizzonk for “Nourish” at the Richmond Art Gallery in 2022. Forthcoming poems and essays will appear in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, The New Republic, Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult), and What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People (University Press of Kentucky). Along with receiving the 2021-2022 Woodberry Poetry Room Fellowship from Harvard University and a 2021 Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award, she is the 2022 recipient of the Peter J. Elich Teaching Award at WWU. She also adopted the cutest rescue pup named Panko.
