Alyssa Wong Explained
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
Wong identifies as 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)
- Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3 (with Karla Pacheco and Dan Slott, 2021)
- Deadpool #1- (2022–present)
- Future Fight Firsts:
- Iron Fist #1–5 (2022)
- The Legend of Shang-Chi #1 (2021)
- Shang-Chi Infinity Comic (with Nathan Stockman, 2021)
- #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), 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (winner),[15] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),[16] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[17] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,[18] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".
- 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (finalist)[19] (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.)[20]
- 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (winner),[21] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (finalist),[22] [23] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (finalist)[24] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".[25]
- 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist), 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist), 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (finalist) for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".[26]
Notes and References
- Web site: Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong. ISFDB. September 30, 2019.
- Web site: Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers. October 14, 2015. Nightmare Magazine. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160621132820/http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/hungry-daughters-of-starving-mothers/. June 21, 2016. live.
- Web site: Poets & Writers. North Carolina State University. www.pw.org. en. July 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171018013452/https://www.pw.org/content/north_carolina_state_university. October 18, 2017. live.
- Web site: Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong . Austen . Goslin . August 1, 2018 . August 1, 2018 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20180801221012/https://www.heroesneverdie.com/2018/8/1/17639448/overwatch-writing-blizzard-nebula-award-winner-alyssa-wong . August 1, 2018 . live .
- Web site: Rocket. Stubby the. October 31, 2019. Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic. February 8, 2021. Tor.com. en-US.
- Web site: January 23, 2020. 'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series – Exclusive. February 8, 2021. StarWars.com. en-US.
- Web site: Dar . Taimur . August 10, 2022 . Syndicated Comics . October 31, 2022 . The Beat . en-US.
- Web site: Dar . Taimur . August 10, 2022 . Syndicated Comics . May 4, 2023 . The Beat . en-US.
- 1579903173283942400. crashwong. 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. October 11, 2022. Alyssa Wong (they/them).
- Web site: Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo by Daniel José Older, Alyssa Wong: 9781368093804 PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books . 2024-02-14 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
- Web site: Nebula Awards – SFWA. SFWA. November 25, 2009. en-US. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20120509222343/http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/. May 9, 2012. live.
- Web site: 2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners . The Shirley Jackson Awards . www.shirleyjacksonawards.org . July 1, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170704162629/http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2014-award-winners/ . July 4, 2017 . live .
- Web site: World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015. Locus Online. November 8, 2015. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160613235211/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2015/11/world-fantasy-awards-winners-2015/. June 13, 2016. live.
- Web site: The Fisher Queen. fu-gen.org. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160509021727/http://fu-gen.org/crash/fisherqueen-wong.htm. May 9, 2016. dead.
- Web site: sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016. www.sfadb.com. July 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170602145934/http://www.sfadb.com/World_Fantasy_Awards_2016. June 2, 2017. live.
- Web site: 2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners . The Shirley Jackson Awards . www.shirleyjacksonawards.org . July 1, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170702032934/http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/award-winners/2015-shirley-jackson-awards-winners/ . July 2, 2017 . live .
- Web site: 2016 Locus Awards Finalists. Locus Online. May 3, 2016. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160616092045/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2016/05/2016-locus-awards-finalists. June 16, 2016. live.
- Web site: The Bram Stoker Awards. StokerCon 2016. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160616193051/http://stokercon2016.horror.org/?page_id=30. June 16, 2016. live.
- Web site: 2016 Hugo Finalists. MidAmericon II. June 18, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160606090843/http://midamericon2.org/home/hugo-awards-and-wsfs/2016-hugo-finalists/. June 6, 2016. live.
- https://io9.gizmodo.com/this-is-what-the-2015-hugo-ballot-should-have-been-1725967147 This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been
- Web site: 2017 Locus Awards Winners. June 24, 2017. www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20170625031813/http://www.locusmag.com/News/2017/06/do-not-touch-2017-locus-awards-winners/. June 25, 2017. live. June 25, 2017.
- Web site: 2016 – The Nebula Awards. The Nebula Awards. en-US. July 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170612063408/http://nebulas.sfwa.org/award-year/2016/. June 12, 2017. live.
- Web site: Alyssa Wong Past Nominations and Wins . May 4, 2023 . The Nebula Awards® . en-US.
- Web site: 2017 Hugo Awards. The Hugo Awards. December 31, 2016. April 4, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170812030011/http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/. August 12, 2017. live.
- News: You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay. Uncanny Magazine. March 6, 2017. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20170307123843/http://uncannymagazine.com/article/youll-surely-drown-stay/. March 7, 2017. live.
- Web site: A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers. March 2, 2016. Tor.com. July 1, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170701213624/http://www.tor.com/2016/03/02/a-fist-of-permutations-in-lightning-and-wildflowers-alyssa-wong/. July 1, 2017. live.