Alyssa Wong

Alyssa Wong is an American speculative fiction author of Chinese and Filipino descent.[1] She has published short fiction and poetry,[2] and studied fiction at North Carolina State University,[3] graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts.[4] In July 2018, she was hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.[5] In October 28 of 2019, during a panel held at MCM Comic Con London, it was announced that she would be writing for the then-upcoming 2020 Doctor Aphra Star Wars comic series for Marvel Comics.

Alyssa Wong
Born	Surprise, Arizona
Occupation	Author
Genre	speculative fiction
Website
www.crashwong.net

Bibliography

Chapbooks

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

Short Fiction

• "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)

Poems

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

Essays

• "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)

Awards

• 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[6] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),[7] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[8] for "The Fisher Queen".[9]
• 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Winner),[6] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Winner),[10] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),[11] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[12] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,[13] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".[3]
• 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Finalist)[14] (As well, an analysis by Io9 indicated that, if not for the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Wong would have also been a finalist for the 2015 award.)[15]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (Winner),[16] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (Finalist),[17] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (Finalist)[18] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".[19]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[16] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),[17] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (Finalist)[18] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".[20]

References

1. "Spotlight on: Alyssa Wong, Author". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-05-11. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
2. "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". ISFDB. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
3. "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. 2015-10-14. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
4. "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
5. Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018). "Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong". Heroes Never Die. Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
6. "Nebula Awards – SFWA". SFWA. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
7. "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
8. "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
9. "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
10. "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
11. "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
12. "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
13. "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
14. "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
15. This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
16. "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. 2017-06-24. Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
17. "2016 - The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
18. "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
19. "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". Uncanny Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
20. "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". Tor.com. 2016-03-02. Archived from the original on 2017-07-01. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

External links

• Official website
• Alyssa Wong at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Preceded by Scott Nicolay	World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner 2016	Succeeded by G. V. Anderson