Alyssa Wong
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Alyssa Wong | |
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Born | Surprise, Arizona |
Occupation | Author |
Genre | Speculative fiction |
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Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. Wong is a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.[1]
Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University,[2] graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts.[3] In July 2018, Wong was hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.[4] Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020, in addition to writing the 2022 Deadpool series.[5][6][7][8] Wong is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[9]
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)
Comics
DC
- DC The Doomed and the Damned #1 (with Travis G. Moore, Saladin Ahmed, Marv Wolfman, John Arcudi, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert, Garth Ennis, Amedeo Turturro, and Brandon Thomas, 2020)
- Sensational Wonder Woman #6 (2021)
- Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1 (with Tim Seeley, Dennis Culver and A.L. Kaplan, 2022)
- Spirit World #1-6 (2023)
Marvel
- Aero #1-12 (2019)
- Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery Of Madame Huang (2021)
- Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3 (with Karla Pacheco and Dan Slott, 2021)
- Deadpool #1- (2022–present)
- Future Fight Firsts (2021)
- Future Fight Firsts: Luna Snow (2019)
- Iron Fist #1-5 (2022)
- The Legend Of Shang-Chi #1 (2021)
- Shang-Chi Infinity Comic (with Nathan Stockman, 2021)
- Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1- (2020–Present)
- Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters - Boushh #1 (2021)
Awards
- 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[10] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),[11] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[12] for "The Fisher Queen".[13]
- 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (winner),[10] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (winner),[14] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),[15] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[16] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,[17] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".[2]
- 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (finalist)[18] (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.)[19]
- 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (winner),[20] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (finalist),[21][22] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (finalist)[23] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".[24]
- 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[20] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[21] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (finalist)[23] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".[25]
References
- ^ "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". ISFDB. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
- ^ a b "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. 2015-10-14. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Rocket, Stubby the (2019-10-31). "Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic". Tor.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ^ "'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series - Exclusive". StarWars.com. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ^ Dar, Taimur (2022-08-10). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ Dar, Taimur (2022-08-10). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
- ^ "Alyssa Wong (@crashwong)". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ a b "Nebula Awards – SFWA". SFWA. 25 November 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. 8 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. 3 May 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
- ^ This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ a b "2016 - The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
- ^ "Alyssa Wong Past Nominations and Wins". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
- ^ a b "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. 31 December 2016. Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
- ^ "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". Uncanny Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
- ^ "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.
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Categories:
- Living people
- American short story writers
- American writers of Chinese descent
- American writers of Filipino descent
- Blizzard Entertainment people
- Marvel Comics writers
- People from Maricopa County, Arizona
- Nebula Award winners
- North Carolina State University alumni
- Video game writers
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- World Fantasy Award-winning writers
- American non-binary writers