Jane Wong, PhD
she/her/hers, Associate Professor, Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review
Office
Location
CH 107
Hours
Office Hours: M & W, 10:30-11:30am and by appointment (CH 107)
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Personal WebsiteAbout
Jane Wong teaches courses in creative writing and Asian American studies. In addition to teaching poetry, memoir, and hybrid forms, her research interests include Asian American poetry and poetics, migration and transnational studies, the digital humanities, food studies, and the interdisciplinary arts.
She is the author of the memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House, 2023) which won the 2024 Washington State Book Award. 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). Wong holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. Her poems and essays can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, and others. In 2017, she received the James W. Ray Distinguished Artist award from Artist Trust for Washington artists. Her interdisciplinary art has been exhibited at the Frye Art Museum, the Richmond Art Gallery, and the Asian Art Museum. A proud first-generation college graduate, she also grew up in a Chinese American take-out restaurant.