Fae Myenne Ng

Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2,[1] 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist, and short story writer.

Fae Myenne Ng
Fae Myenne Ng at the Brooklyn Book Festival
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, Calys, City Lights Review, Crescent Review, 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. Fae Myenne Ng.

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.

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.[10]

References

1. "Fae Myenne Ng." The Writers Directory. Detroit: St. James Press, 2011. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 6 Mar. 2012.
2. "Voices from the Gaps".
3. http://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=7366
4. "Fae Myenne Ng".
5. Guiyou Huang, ed. (2003). Asian American short story writers: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-32229-7.
6. Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. (2000). Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook -. Greenwood. ISBN 0-313-30911-6.
7. "Fae Myenne Ng | Harper's Magazine".
8. "Fae Myenne Ng". Daily Bruin. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2009-10-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
10. Beth Kepharl (May 17, 2008). ""Steer Toward Rock," by Fae Myenne Ng". The Chicago Tribune.

Sources

• University of Minnesota biography and review
• "Author Interviews: Fae Myenne Ng", August 14, 2008

External links

• Author Interview regarding Bone
• http://faemyenneng.com/