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Poet Jane Wong to Read from New Memoir About Growing Up in Atlantic City

Jane Wong, whose debut memoir 鈥淢eet Met Tonight in Atlantic City鈥 has received rave reviews, will be the first speaker for this academic year at Stockton University鈥檚 Stephen Dunn Reading Series.

The 2023 book is 鈥渁n incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood,鈥

A furious, joyful memoir of working-class New Jersey and the writing life

A memoir that celebrates as much as it grieves, rages and broods, Jane Wong鈥檚 鈥溾 charts its author鈥檚 progress from the casinos of New Jersey to the college dorms of Upstate New York, to Hong Kong and Iowa and鈥

Q & A with Jane Wong about her new memoir, 'Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City鈥櫬
Two Memoirs of Chinese American Hunger, Three Decades Apart

A New York Times book review of Jane Wong's new memoir, "Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City." Wong is a faculty member in Western's English Department.

Jane Wong: How Non-Linearity Mirrors the Experience of Migration

Jane Wong is the author of the poetry collections How to Not Be Afraid of Everything and Overpour. An associate professor of creative writing at Western Washington University, she grew up in New Jersey and currently lives in鈥

This book of poetry says, 'I have fists,' and the world needs to know

Fists curling and uncurling. People who don't look each other in the eye. Food, and everyone coming together around it. These are the images at the core of Jane Wong's second collection of poems, How To Not Be Afraid Of Everything.

"That turning around when I walk down the鈥

20 Best Things to Do in Seattle in June 2019

Poet and Western Washington University professor Jane Wong鈥檚 family life was shaped by food: its presence, in the New Jersey Chinese restaurant her family ran; and its absence, in the unspeakable famines of Mao鈥檚 Great Leap Forward, which some of her family鈥

草榴社区's Jane Wong helps judge annual Sue Boynton Poetry Contest
These Seattle Artists Are Exploring China's Sociopolitical Transformation

The Great Leap Forward and the period that followed it鈥攖he Communist Cultural Revolution鈥攁re explored in a different medium by poet Jane Wong (

Jane Wong: Finding a New Place to Call Home
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