Shelley Wong is a Kundiman fellow and the author of RARE BIRDS (Diode Editions). Her poems have appeared in Crazyhorse, Sixth Finch, Southern Humanities Review, Verse Daily, Vinyl, The Volta, and elsewhere.
She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, a Peter Taylor fellowship from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and scholarships from Fine Arts Work Center and Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. She holds an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BA from UC Berkeley.