Alison Wong

Alison Wong

Alison Wong (born 1960) is a New Zealand poet of Chinese heritage. [ [http://www.poetrycafe.co.nz/biographies/alison-wong.htm New Zealand Poetry - Biography - Alison Wong ] ] Her background in mathematics comes across in her poetry, not as a subject, but in the careful formulation of words to white space and precision. She has a half-Chinese son with a New Zealand poet.

Career and awards

Wong has received various awards for her fiction and poetry including the 2002 Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago, a Readers Digest - NZ Society of Authors Fellowship at the Stout Research Centre and a NZ Founders Society Research Award. She has been a finalist in several poetry competitions and received grants from Creative NZ and the Willi Fels Memorial Trust.In 2003, she has been a guest writer at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival and the Wordstruck! Festival in Dunedin, as well as a speaker for the Stout Research Centre Chinese New Zealand Seminar Series. In 2001, together with Lindsay Forbes, she received a Porirua City Council Civic Honour Award for co-founding and running Poetry Cafe.

Her first poetry collection, "Cup", was released in February 2006 by Steele Roberts. [ [http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/371 The Lumière Reader » Arts » Cup ] ] It was shortlisted for a poetry prize in the Montana Book awards.

References

External links

* [http://www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/371 Alison Wong Biography]


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