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Occupation
  
Writer

Name
  
Yang Huang

Role
  
Novelist


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Born
  
June 13, 1971 (age 52) Jiangsu, China (
1971-06-13
)

Alma mater
  
University of Arizona, Tongji University

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Yang Huang (born June 13, 1971) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Living Treasures, was a finalist for the 2008 Bellwether Prize and 2014 Foreword Review's INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Finalist. Her short story collection, My Old Faithful, won 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction.

Contents

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Early life

Yang Huang studied applied physics at Tongji University from 1988 to 1990, received a B.S in computer science in 1993 and B.A. in English literature in 1996 from Florida Atlantic University, an M.A in English literature from Boston College in 1998, and an MFA in creative writing from University of Arizona in 2000.

Career

Her stories have been featured in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Stories for Film, FUTURES, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Nuvein Magazine, and The Evansville Review.

Her short story "A Spell of Spring Dream" was nominated for the Pushcart prize.

Works

  • Living Treasures; Harvard Square Editions 2014, ISBN 978-0-9895960-5-3
  • Personal life

    Yang Huang works at UC Berkeley. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. She is married with two children.

    References

    Yang Huang Wikipedia