Fae Myenne Ng

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Name Fae Ng Role Novelist		Books Bone, Steer Toward Rock

Education Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley Awards American Book Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

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

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. 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. She held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation.

Life

She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China. 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.

Her short stories have appeared in the American Voice, Calys, City Lights Review, Crescent Review, Harper's. She currently teaches at UC Berkeley and UCLA in the English and Asian American Studies departments.

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

Works

Bone, Hyperion, 1993

Steer Toward Rock. Hyperion. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7868-6097-5.

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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

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.

References

Fae Myenne Ng Wikipedia

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