Jane Wong holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD in English from the University of Washington. She is a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and Kundiman Fellow, and received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley, and the Fine Arts Work Center. The recipient of The American Poetry Review’s 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, Jane’s poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, The Volta, and Third Coast, as well as the anthologies Best American Poetry 2015 from Scribner, Best New Poets 2012 from The University of Virginia Press and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral from Ahsahta Press. Jane is also the author of OVERPOUR from Action Books and is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western.
