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Alyssa Wong

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Alyssa Wong
BornSurprise, Arizona, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
GenreSpeculative fiction
Website
www.crashwong.net

Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. They are a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.[1]

Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University,[2] graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts.[3] In July 2018, they were hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.[4] Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020 and for the 2022 Deadpool series.[5][6][7][8]

Personal life

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Wong identifies as queer and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[9]

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • The High Republic: Escape from Valo (2024)[10]

Chapbooks

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  • A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (2016)

Short fiction

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  • "The Fisher Queen" (2014)
  • "Scarecrow" (2014)
  • "Santos de Sampaguitas" (2014)
  • "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" (2015)
  • "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" (2016)
  • "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" (2016)
  • "Rabbit Heart" (2016)
  • "Natural Skin" (2016)
  • "The White Dragon" (2016)
  • "Your Bones Will Not Be Unknown" (2016)
  • "God Product" (2017)
  • "A Clamor of Bones" (2017)
  • "All the Time We've Left to Spend" (2018)
  • "What My Mother Left Me" (2018)
  • "Olivia's Table" (2018)
  • "What You Left Behind" (2019)
  • "Wolf Trap", From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, (Del Rey, August 2023)

Poems

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  • "For the Gardener's Daughter" (2015)

Essays

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  • "Here's How It Goes" (2015)
  • "Buzzword" (2016)
  • "The H Word: The Darkest, Truest Mirrors" (2016)
  • "They Love Me Not: How Fictional Villains Saved My Life" (2016)

Comics

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DC

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Marvel

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Awards

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References

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  1. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". ISFDB. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. October 14, 2015. Archived from the original on June 21, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  3. ^ "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  4. ^ Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018). "Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong". Heroes Never Die. Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  5. ^ Rocket, Stubby the (October 31, 2019). "Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic". Tor.com. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
  6. ^ "'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series – Exclusive". StarWars.com. January 23, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
  7. ^ Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
  8. ^ Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  9. ^ Alyssa Wong (they/them) [@crashwong] (October 11, 2022). "Coming out is a process, so be patient with yourself. I grew up thinking I had to stay in the closet, but my life has opened up since coming out as queer and non-binary" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  10. ^ "Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo by Daniel José Older, Alyssa Wong: 9781368093804 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved February 14, 2024.
  11. ^ Adams, Timothy (October 19, 2023). "Captain Marvel Debuts Her New Costume in Preview of Marvel Series (Exclusive)". Comicbook. Retrieved August 26, 2024.
  12. ^ a b "Nebula Awards – SFWA". SFWA. November 25, 2009. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  13. ^ "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on July 4, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  14. ^ "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. November 8, 2015. Archived from the original on June 13, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  15. ^ "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  16. ^ "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  17. ^ "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  18. ^ "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. May 3, 2016. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  19. ^ "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  20. ^ "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
  21. ^ This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
  22. ^ a b "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. June 24, 2017. Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
  23. ^ a b "2016 – The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
  24. ^ "Alyssa Wong Past Nominations and Wins". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
  25. ^ a b "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. December 31, 2016. Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
  26. ^ "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". Uncanny Magazine. Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  27. ^ "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". Tor.com. March 2, 2016. Archived from the original on July 1, 2017. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
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Awards
Preceded by World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner
2016 		Succeeded by
G. V. Anderson
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