Please join the Department of English Visiting Writers Series for a reading and Q&A with Jane Wong.
Jane Wong is the author of the memoir, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House 2023), and two books of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James 2021) and Overpour (Action Books 2016). Her essays have appeared in places such as McSweeney's, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and Want: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult). A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from the U.S. Fulbright Program, Artist Trust, Harvard’s Woodberry Poetry Room, Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, the Jentel Foundation, Ucross, and others. 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.
Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a love song of the Asian American working class and a portrait of how we become who we are. In this memoir, Wong tells a new story about Atlantic City that resists a single identity and story: one about a family staking their claim to the American dream, even as this dream crumbles.
This reading is free and open to the public, and it will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for sale from Prologue Bookshop.
