Fae Myenne Ng
Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2,[1] 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist and short story writer.
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| Born | December 2, 1956 |
She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel Bone told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown.[2] Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute.[3] She has held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation.[4]
Life
She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China.[5] She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received her M.F.A. at Columbia University. Ng has supported herself by working as a waitress and at other temporary jobs. She teaches UC Berkeley AAADS 20C.[6]
Her short stories have appeared in The American Voice, Calyx, City Lights Review, Crescent Review, and Harper's.[7] She currently teaches at UC Berkeley and UCLA in the English and Asian American Studies departments.[8]
Awards
- nominated and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, for Bone
- grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
- 2008 American Book Award for Steer Toward Rock
- 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship[9]
Works
- Bone, Hyperion, 1993
- Steer Toward Rock. Hyperion. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7868-6097-5.
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- Orphan Bachelors. Grove, 2023. ISBN 978-0-8021-6222-9.[10]
Anthologies
- Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, ed. (1993). Charlie Chan is dead: an anthology of contemporary Asian American fiction. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-023111-3.
- Sylvia Watanabe; Carol Bruchac, eds. (1990). Home to stay: Asian American women's fiction. Greenfield Review Press. ISBN 978-0-912678-76-4.
- Shawn Wong, ed. (1996). Asian American literature: a brief introduction and anthology. HarperCollins College Pub. ISBN 978-0-673-46977-9.
References
- "Fae Myenne Ng." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
- "Voices from the Gaps".
- "Ploughshares at Emerson College". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
- "Fae Myenne Ng".
- Guiyou Huang, ed. (2003). Asian American short story writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-32229-7.
- Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook -. Greenwood. ISBN 0-313-30911-6.
- "Fae Myenne Ng | Harper's Magazine".
- "Fae Myenne Ng". Daily Bruin. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- "Fae Myenne Ng - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-10-21.
- "Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir by undefined". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2023-05-09.