Thursday, November 9, 2023
Workshop
10 – 11 am CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Memorial Library, First Floor, SW Corner
This event is free and open to the public.
Craft Talk
3 – 3:50 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Performing Arts Building, Room 203A
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Reading
7:30 – 8:15 pm CST
Minnesota State University Mankato
Centennial Student Union Room 245
This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.
Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books), winner of the Pamet River Prize, longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.
Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The New Republic.
She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships and residencies from Kundiman, MacDowell, Vermont Studio Center, I-Park Foundation, Fire Island National Seashore, and SPACE. In 2022, she received an individual artist grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission in support of her second book project.
She has taught creative writing at the Ohio State University; led workshops for Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University, Asian Pacific Islander Equality Northern California, The Ruby, BreakBread Literacy Project, and University of California at San Francisco.
Born and raised in Long Beach, California, she is queer and fourth-generation Chinese American. She holds an MFA from the Ohio State University and a BA from UC Berkeley.