JACK WANG is the author of the story collection We Two Alone (House of Anansi, 2020; HarperVia, 2021), winner of the 2021 Central New York Book Award in Fiction and the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers’ Union of Canada for best debut collection in English, shortlisted for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and longlisted for Canada Reads 2022. His fiction has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Brick, PRISM international, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, and Joyland and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Journey Prize. His forthcoming novel, The Riveter, received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. He holds a BSc from the University of Toronto, an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in English from Florida State University. In 2014–15, he held the David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and in 2022, he served as a writer-in-residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver. He is a professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College. Originally from Vancouver, he lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife and their two daughters.
