Alyssa Wong
American writer
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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]
Alyssa Wong | |
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| Born | Surprise, Arizona, U.S. |
| Occupation | Author |
| Genre | Speculative fiction |
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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, the 2022 Deadpool and Iron Fist series, as well as the Alligator Loki webtoon series on Marvel Unlimited,[5][6][7][8] and Psylocke (since 2024).
Personal life
Wong is queer and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.[9]
Bibliography
Novels
- The High Republic: Escape from Valo (2024)[10]
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)
- "Wolf Trap", From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, (Del Rey, August 2023)
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 Damned #1 (with Travis G. Moore, Saladin Ahmed, Marv Wolfman, John Arcudi, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert, Garth Ennis, Amedeo Turturro, and Brandon Thomas, 2020)
- Sensational Wonder Woman #6 (2021)
- Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1 (with Tim Seeley, Dennis Culver and A.L. Kaplan, 2022)
- Spirit World #1–6 (2023)
Marvel
- Aero #1–12 (2019)
- Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery of Madame Huang (2021)
- Alligator Loki #1–48 (with Bob Quinn, 2022–present)
- Captain Marvel (vol. 11) #1–10 (2023-2024)
- Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3 (with Karla Pacheco and Dan Slott, 2021)
- Deadpool (vol. 8) #1–10 (2022–2023)
- Future Fight Firsts:
- Iron Fist #1–5 (2022)
- Psylocke (vol. 2) #1– (2024–present)
- The Legend of Shang-Chi #1 (2021)
- Shang-Chi Infinity Comic (with Nathan Stockman, 2021)
- Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1–40 (2020–2024)
- Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters – Boushh #1 (2021)
Awards
- 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[11] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),[12] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[13] for "The Fisher Queen".[14]
- 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (winner),[15] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (winner),[16] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),[17] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[18] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,[19] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".[2]
- 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (finalist)[20] (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.)[21]
- 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (winner),[22] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (finalist),[23][24] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (finalist)[25] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".[26]
- 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[22] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[23] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (finalist)[25] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".[27]
