Xuan Juliana Wang is a Chinese American writer. She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her 2019 short story collection, Home Remedies, won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award and the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and received a Stegner Fellowship to study at Stanford University.
Early life and education
editXuan Juliana Wang was born in 1985 Heilongjiang, China.[1] Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was seven years old.[2]
Wang earned her BA from the University of Southern California.[3] She earned her MFA from Columbia University in 2011 and received a Stegner Fellowship to study at Stanford University from 2011 to 2013.[4] She lived in Beijing for two and a half years in her 20s.[5] During the 2008 Summer Olympics she worked as a translator.[2]
Career
editWang's work has been published in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.[6] Her debut work was the 2019 short story collection Home Remedies.[4] The collection was shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award[7] and the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.[8] It won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award.[9]
Wang is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and teaches creative writing.[10] She has been a fiction editor at Fence magazine.[7]
References
edit- ^ Lange, Maggie (June 10, 2019). "'Home Remedies' Is About the Bizarre Experience of Growing Up in Rapid Globalization". Vice. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ a b Wally, Maxine (May 15, 2019). "This Chinese-American Author Wants to Capture Youth in Her Debut Book". WWD. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ "Xuan Juliana Wang". Narrative Magazine. May 11, 2017. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ a b Muske-Dukes, Carol (August 7, 2019). "Wonderful Chaos: On 'Home Remedies: Stories' by Xuan Juliana Wang". Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ Pak, Ethan (June 24, 2019). "UCLA lecturer writes short story collection especially pertinent to young Asians". Daily Bruin. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ Gillet, Kit (May 16, 2019). "Home Remedies: 12 stories of China's young and listless". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ a b "Meet Our 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists: Xuan Juliana Wang, Home Remedies". The New York Public Library. September 16, 2020. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ "Announcing the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. January 28, 2020. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ "John C. Zacharis First Book Award | Ploughshares". Ploughshares. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ Roy, Nilanjana (August 2, 2019). "Home Remedies — short stories full of urgency and understanding". Financial Times. Archived from the original on June 12, 2023. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
External links
edit- "Ten Questions for Xuan Juliana Wang". Poets & Writers. May 14, 2019.
- "'For Our Children and For Ourselves' by Xuan Juliana Wang". The Masters Review.
- Wang, Xuan Juliana (May 16, 2022). "A specific and personal story about an L.A. ADU". Los Angeles Times.
- Wang, Xuan Juliana (May 13, 2019). "Future Cat". The Cut.