Fae Myenne Ng
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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 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 Magazine.[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
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- Orphan Bachelors. Grove, 2023. ISBN 978-0-8021-6222-9.[10]
Anthologies
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References
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- ↑ "Fae Myenne Ng." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
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- American novelists of Chinese descent
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