Jane Wong
Jane Wong’s poems can be found in The Best American Poetry 2015, the American Poetry Review, AGNI, Poetry, and others. Her essays appear in McSweeney’s, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, the Georgia Review, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, and others. She is the author of Overpour from Action Books, and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, which is forthcoming from Alice James. She is an assistant professor at Western Washington University.
Reading List
To Love a Mosquito
“It doesn’t count if you don’t see blood,” I say, holding my palm up to my little brother’s face like a mirror. I show him the blood—a lipstick smear right in the middle. Smack. Half a wing dangles from my hand. If you squint hard enough, it looks like I’m shedding my own skin. My […]