Jack Wang
WRITER/MENTOR
ACK WANG is the author of a collection, We Two Alone (House of Anansi Press, 2020; HarperVia, 2021), and a novel, The Riveters (forthcoming from House of Anansi Press and HarperVia). His fiction has appeared in Brick, PRISM international, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, and Joyland and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Journey Prize. In 2014–15, he held the David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and in 2020, he was awarded a residency at Historic Joy Kogawa House in Vancouver. In 2021, Jack’s book We Two Alone was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Prize. He holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD from Florida State University, and he is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College. Originally from Vancouver, he lives in Ithaca, New York, with his wife, novelist Angelina Mirabella, and their two daughters.
Jack is a 2021 GTA mentor and worked with Laura Wang Arseneau.