Shawn Wong

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name = Shawn Hsu Wong


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Shawn Hsu Wong (born 1949 in Oakland, California) is an author and English Professor and former Director of the Honors Program at the University of Washington. He is Chinese American and a pioneer of Asian American studies. Wong received his undergraduate degree in English at the University of California at Berkeley (1971) and a Master's degree in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University (1974).

Writings

Wong's first novel, "Homebase," published by Reed and Cannon (1979), won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the 15th Annual Governor's Writers Day Award of Washington. He second novel, "American Knees," first published by Simon & Schuster in 1996, was adapted into an independent feature film entitled "Americanese" (2008), written and directed by Eric Byler and produced by Lisa Onodera. The book was also re-issued by University of Washington Press in 2005.

Wong is also co-editor of six multicultural literary anthologies including the pioneering anthology, "Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers" (reprinted in four different editions), "Literary Mosaic: Asian American and Asian Diasporas, Cultures, Identities, Representations," and "The Big Aiiieeeee!." He is co-editor of "Before Columbus Foundation Fiction/Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990" – two volumes of contemporary American multicultural poetry and fiction.

Wong has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Italy. He was featured in the 1997 PBS documentary, "Shattering the Silences" and in the Bill Moyers' PBS documentary, "Becoming American: The Chinese Experience", in 2003. He is also featured in the 2005 documentary, "What's Wrong With Frank Chin?".

Wong also serves as consulting and contributing editor for "Transtext(e)s-Transcultures: A Journal of Global Cultural Studies", http://www.transtexts.net

Bibliography

Author

*"American Knees" — A novel, Simon & Schuster, 1995; Scribner paperback, 1996; re-issued by University of Washington Press, 2005
*"Homebase" — A novel, Reed & Cannon, 1979; re-issued by Plume/NAL, 1990

Editor

*"The Literary Mosaic: An Anthology of Asian American Literature" — Harper Collins, 1995
*"The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990" — with Ishmael Reed and Kathryn Trueblood, W.W. Norton Co., 1992
*"The Big Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature" — with Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, and Lawson Fusao Inada, Meridian/NAL, 1991
*"Wooden Fish Songs", 1983
*"Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers" — Howard University Press, 1974; most recent re-issue by Meridian, 1997

See also

*List of Asian American writers

External links

* [http://depts.washington.edu/engl/people/profile.php?id=67 Shawn Wong profile on University of Washington website]
* [http://www.nwasianweekly.com/200726019/bookfest20072619.htm Shawn Wong discusses "American Knees" becoming a movie, at Rainbow Bookfest (minority authors)] in Northwest Asian Weekly