Shawn Wong

Shawn Hsu Wong is an author and English Professor and former Director of the Honors Program at the University of Washington. He is Chinese American and a pioneer of Asian American studies. Wong received his undergraduate degree in English at the University of California at Berkeley and a Master's degree in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University .

Writings

Wong's first novel, "Homebase," published by Reed and Cannon , won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the 15th Annual Governor's Writers Day Award of Washington. He second novel, "American Knees," first published by Simon & Schuster in 1996, was adapted into an independent feature film entitled ''Americanese'' , written and directed by Eric Byler and produced by Lisa Onodera. The book was also re-issued by University of Washington Press in 2005.

Wong is also co-editor of six multicultural literary anthologies including the pioneering anthology, ''Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers'' , ''Literary Mosaic: Asian American and Asian Diasporas, Cultures, Identities, Representations,'' and ''The Big Aiiieeeee!.'' He is co-editor of ''Before Columbus Foundation Fiction/Poetry Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards, 1980-1990'' – two volumes of contemporary American multicultural poetry and fiction.

Wong has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Italy. He was featured in the 1997 PBS documentary, ''Shattering the Silences'' and in the Bill Moyers' PBS documentary, ''Becoming American: The Chinese Experience'', in 2003. He is also featured in the 2005 documentary, ''What's Wrong With Frank Chin?''.

Wong also serves as consulting and contributing editor for ''Transtexts-Transcultures: A Journal of Global Cultural Studies'', http://www.transtexts.net

Bibliography

Author

*''American Knees'' — A novel, Simon & Schuster, 1995; Scribner paperback, 1996; re-issued by University of Washington Press, 2005
*'''' — A novel, Reed & Cannon, 1979; re-issued by Plume/NAL, 1990

Editor

*''The Literary Mosaic: An Anthology of Asian American Literature'' — Harper Collins, 1995
*''The Before Columbus Foundation Fiction Anthology: Selections from the American Book Awards 1980-1990'' — with Ishmael Reed and Kathryn Trueblood, W.W. Norton Co., 1992
*''The Big Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature'' — with Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, and Lawson Fusao Inada, Meridian/NAL, 1991
*''Wooden Fish Songs'', 1983
*''Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers'' — Howard University Press, 1974; most recent re-issue by Meridian, 1997