On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family
Jane Wong: “My father wrote half of me into being, I suppose. My mother wrote the other half.”
May 6, 2024
By Jane Wong
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Jane Wong
Jane Wong is the author of How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, Overpour, and memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City.
She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University. Her poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, The New York Times, American Poetry Review, POETRY, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in places such as McSweeney's, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home.
