Fae Myenne Ng
Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2,[1] 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist, and short story writer.
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 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.[6]
Her short stories have appeared in the American Voice, Calys, City Lights Review, Crescent Review, Harper's.[7] She currently teaches at UC Berkeley.
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 [8]
Works
- Bone, Hyperion, 1993
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Anthologies
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Reviews
In Steer Toward Rock, Ng takes her time, says what she truly means to say, stares complication straight in the face, stares it down. One feels her attacking this fiction-writing business as if it's the most important chance any of us will ever get to put the truth on paper, and one is left—it can't be helped—in awe of her talent.[9]
References
- ↑ "Fae Myenne Ng." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
- ↑ http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/ngFae.php
- ↑ http://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=7366
- ↑ http://aaads.berkeley.edu/faculty/fae-myenne-ng/
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- ↑ http://www.harpers.org/subjects/FaeMyenneNg
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/16481-fae-myenne-ng
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