Virtual Visits is a digital series where Frye staff check in on members of our creative community in their home and work spaces during social distancing and beyond.
Join Amanda Donnan, Chief Curator at Frye Art Museum, for a Virtual Visit with Frye artist Jane Wong (recorded in May 2020).
Jane Wong (American, b. 1984, Long Branch, New Jersey) is a poet, essayist, and professor who grew up in a Chinese American take-out restaurant. Her poems can be found in Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, and jubilat, among others. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, 4Culture, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and The Mineral School. The author of Overpour (Action Books, 2016), Jane is an assistant professor at Western Washington University. Invested in public scholarship, her project on the poetics of haunting in Asian American poetry has appeared as a TEDx talk and a multimedia website.