Shelley Wong

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (2022), longlisted for the National Book Award for poetry and winner of a Lambda Literary Award.

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Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (2022), longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Pamet River Prize. She lives in San Francisco.

Her writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The New Republic, and anthologized in Best American Poetry 2021 (ed. Tracy K. Smith), We the Gathered Heat: Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry, Performance, and Spoken Word, Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry, and They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets.

Her honors include a Pushcart Prize, a San Francisco Foundation / Nomadic Literary Award, and fellowships, residencies, and support from Kundiman, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center, among others. She has received an artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission supporting her second manuscript, a book on California.

She has taught creative writing at the University of San Francisco MFA program and the Ohio State University and led workshops for Kenyon College, Arizona State University, Poets & Writers, Kearny Street Workshop, and Minnesota State University at Mankato.

Born and raised in Long Beach, California, she is queer and fourth-generation Chinese American. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Ohio State University and a BA in English from UC Berkeley.

Literary Agent: Ashley Lopez at Massie McQuilkin & Altman

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