Fae Myenne Ng
(b.1957)The daughter of seamstress and a laborer, Fae Myenne Ng was born in San Francisco. She attended the University of California-Berkeley, and receiced her M.F.A. at Columbia University. Ng has supported herself by workin as a waitress and at other temporary jobs.
Bone (1993), her first novel, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award is a story about a Chinese American family. Her short stories have appeared in the American Voice, Calys, City Lights Review, Crescent Review, Harper's, and in a number of anthologies. She was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives in New York City. She published a second novel, Steer Toward Rock, in 2008.
Bone (1993), her first novel, which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award is a story about a Chinese American family. Her short stories have appeared in the American Voice, Calys, City Lights Review, Crescent Review, Harper's, and in a number of anthologies. She was awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently lives in New York City. She published a second novel, Steer Toward Rock, in 2008.
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Fae Myenne Ng recommends
The Stone World (2022)
Joel Agee
"This is an extraordinary, incandescent novel, stirring with deep inner movement yet timelessly still like the sea."
Books containing stories by Fae Myenne Ng
Charlie Chan Is Dead (1993)
An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction
(Charlie Chan Is Dead, book 1)
edited by
Jessica Hagedorn
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