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Jane Wong is an Asian American poet and professor at Pacific Lutheran University. She is the author of Overpour and has been published in Best American Poetry 2015 and Best New Poets 2012. Wong grew up in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, where her parents owned a Chinese restaurant, and where Jane remembers much of her childhood. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
Background
Wong received her B.A. in English from Bard College, her MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington.
Awards and honors
- 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from The American Poetry Review
- 2015 Best American Poetry
- 2012 Best New Poets
- Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
- Kundiman Fellowship
- 2007-2008 Fulbright Scholarship