Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. Wong is a recipient of the Nebula Award,

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year at the eponymous ann ...

, and

Locus Award The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine ''Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California. The awards are presented at an annual banquet. In addition to the pl ...

. Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University, graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts. In July 2018, Wong was hired by

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as a writer on ''

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''. Wong is the writer for

Marvel Comics Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...

's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020, in addition to writing the 2022 ''

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'' series. Wong is

non-binary Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are not solely male or femaleidentities that are outside the gender binary. Non-binary identities fall under the transgender umbrella, since non-binary people typically ...

and uses

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pronouns.

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)

Comics

DC

* ''DC The Doomed and the Dammed'' #1 (with Travis G. Moore,

Saladin Ahmed Saladin Ahmed (born October 4, 1975) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer and a science fiction/fantasy poetry and prose writer. His 2012 book '' Throne of the Crescent Moon'' was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel and ...

Marv Wolfman Marvin Arthur Wolfman (born May 13, 1946) is an American comic book and novelization writer. He worked on Marvel Comics's '' The Tomb of Dracula'', for which he and artist Gene Colan created the vampire-slayer Blade, and DC Comics's ''The New Te ...

John Arcudi John Arcudi is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on ''The Mask'' and ''B.P.R.D.'', and his series '' Major Bummer''. Early life Arcudi grew up in Buffalo, New York. He attended Columbia University as an English major and de ...

, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert,

Garth Ennis Garth Ennis (born January 16, 1970) is a Northern Irish–American comics writer, best known for the Vertigo series ''Preacher'' with artist Steve Dillon, his nine-year run on Marvel Comics' Punisher franchise, and '' The Boys'' with artist Dar ...

, Amedeo Turturro, and Brandon Thomas, 2020) * ''Sensational Wonder Woman'' #6 (2021) * ''Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate'' #1 (with

Tim Seeley Tim Seeley is an American comic book artist and writer known for his work on books such as '' Grayson'', '' Nightwing'', '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'', ''G.I. Joe vs. Transformers'' and '' New Exiles''. He is also the co-creator of the ...

, Dennis Culver and A.L. Kaplan, 2022) * ''Spirit World'' #1-6 (2023)

Marvel

* ''

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'' #1-12 (2019) * ''Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery Of Madame Huang'' (2021) * ''Carnage: Black, White & Blood'' #3 (with Karla Pacheco and

Dan Slott Dan Slott (born July 3, 1967) is an American comic book writer, known for his work on Marvel Comics books such as ''The Amazing Spider-Man'', as well as ''She-Hulk'', ''Silver Surfer'', '' The Superior Spider-Man'', '' Tony Stark: Iron Man'', ''Th ...

, 2021) * ''

'' #1- (2022–present) * ''Future Fight Firsts'' (2021) * ''Future Fight Firsts: Luna Snow'' (2019) * '' Iron Fist'' #1-5 (2022) * ''The Legend Of Shang-Chi'' #1 (2021) * ''Shang-Chi Infinity Comic'' (with Nathan Stockman, 2021) * '' Star Wars: Doctor Aphra'' #1- (2020–Present) *''Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters - Boushh #1'' (2021)

Awards

*2014

Nebula Award for Best Short Story The Nebula Award for Best Short Story is a literary award assigned each year by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy short stories. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a short stor ...

(finalist), 2014

Shirley Jackson Award The Shirley Jackson Awards are literary awards named after Shirley Jackson in recognition of her legacy in writing. These awards for outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror and the dark fantastic are presented a ...

(finalist), 2015

World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story In its most general sense, the term "world" refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the worl ...

(finalist), for "The Fisher Queen". *2015

(winner), 2016

(winner), 2015

(finalist), 2016

Locus Award for Best Short Story The Locus Award for Best Short Story is one of a series of Locus Awards given every year by ''Locus Magazine''. Awards presented in a given year are for works published in the previous calendar year. Originally known as the Locus Award for Best Sho ...

(finalist), 2015

Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction The Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction is an award presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for "superior achievement" in horror writing for short fiction. Winners and nominees This category was previously titled "best short story". Nomi ...

, for " Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". *2016

John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer The ''Astounding'' Award for Best New Writer (formerly the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer) is given annually to the best new writer whose first professional work of science fiction or fantasy was published within the two previous ...

(finalist) (As well, an analysis by

Io9 ''io9'' is part of Gizmodo media since 2015, and it began as blog launched in 2008 by Gawker Media. The site initially focused on the subjects of science fiction, fantasy, futurism, science, technology and related areas but over the years has ...

indicated that, if not for the

Sad Puppies Sad Puppies was an unsuccessful right-wing anti-diversity voting campaign run from 2013 to 2017 and intended to influence the outcome of the annual Hugo Awards, the longest-running prize (since 1953) for science fiction or fantasy works. It wa ...

ballot manipulation campaign, Wong would have also been a finalist for the 2015 award.)This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been
by Andrew Liptak, at

; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019 *2017

Locus Award for Best Novelette The Locus Award for Best Novelette is one of a series of Locus Awards The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine '' Locus'', a monthly magazine based in Oakland, Californi ...

(winner), 2016

Nebula Award for Best Novelette The Nebula Award for Best Novelette is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to a science fiction or fantasy novelette. A work of fiction is defined by the organization as a novelette if it is between 7,50 ...

(finalist), 2017

Hugo Award for Best Novelette The Hugo Award for Best Novelette is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The novelette award is available for works of fiction of ...

(finalist) for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". *2017

(finalist), 2016

(finalist), 2017

Hugo Award for Best Short Story The Hugo Award for Best Short Story is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published or translated into English during the previous calendar year. The short story award is available for works of fiction o ...

(finalist) for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".

References

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