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Alyssa Wong
BornSurprise, Arizona
OccupationAuthor
Genrespeculative fiction
Website
www.crashwong.net

Alyssa Wong is an American speculative fiction author of Chinese and Filipino descent.[1] She has published short fiction and poetry,[2] and studied fiction at North Carolina State University,[3] graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts.[4] In July 2018, she was hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.[5]

Bibliography[]

Chapbooks[]

  • A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (2016)

Short Fiction[]

  • "The Fisher Queen" (2014)
  • "Scarecrow" (2014)
  • "Santos de Sampaguitas" (2014)
  • "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" (2015)
  • "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" (2016)
  • "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" (2016)
  • "Rabbit Heart" (2016)
  • "Natural Skin" (2016)
  • "The White Dragon" (2016)
  • "Your Bones Will Not Be Unknown" (2016)
  • "God Product" (2017)
  • "A Clamor of Bones" (2017)
  • "All the Time We've Left to Spend" (2018)
  • "What My Mother Left Me" (2018)
  • "Olivia's Table" (2018)
  • "What you left Behind" (2019)

Poems[]

  • "For the Gardener's Daughter" (2015)

Essays[]

  • "Here's How It Goes" (2015)
  • "Buzzword" (2016)
  • "The H Word: The Darkest, Truest Mirrors" (2016)
  • "They Love Me Not: How Fictional Villains Saved My Life" (2016)

Awards[]

  • 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[6] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),[7] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[8] for "The Fisher Queen".[9]
  • 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Winner),[6] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Winner),[10] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),[11] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[12] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,[13] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".[3]
  • 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Finalist)[14] (As well, an analysis by Io9 indicated that, if not for the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Wong would have also been a finalist for the 2015 award.)[15]
  • 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (Winner),[16] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (Finalist),[17] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (Finalist)[18] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".[19]
  • 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[16] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[17] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (Finalist)[18] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".[20]

References[]

  1. "Spotlight on: Alyssa Wong, Author". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  2. "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". www.isfdb.org. Archived from the original on 2016-09-15. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. 2015-10-14. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  4. "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-07-01. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  5. Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018). "Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong". Heroes Never Die. Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved August 1, 2018. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Nebula Awards – SFWA". SFWA. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  7. "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-01. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  8. "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  9. "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  10. "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  11. "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  12. "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  13. "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  14. "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-18. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  15. This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
  16. 16.0 16.1 "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. 2017-06-24. Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2017-06-25. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  17. 17.0 17.1 "2016 - The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-07-01. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  18. 18.0 18.1 "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved April 4, 2017. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url
  19. "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" (in en-US). Uncanny Magazine. http://uncannymagazine.com/article/youll-surely-drown-stay/. 
  20. "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". Tor.com. 2016-03-02. Archived from the original on 2017-07-01. Retrieved 2017-07-01. {{cite web}}: ; dead-url

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Preceded by
Scott Nicolay
World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner
2016
Succeeded by
G. V. Anderson

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