Fae Myenne Ng

Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2,^[1] 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Fae Myenne Ng
Fae Myenne Ng at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	(1956-12-02) December 2, 1956 (age 68) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education	University of California, Berkeley Columbia University (MFA)

She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel Bone told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown.^[2] Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute.^[3] She has held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation.^[4]

Life

She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China.^[5] She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received her M.F.A. at Columbia University. Ng has supported herself by working as a waitress and at other temporary jobs. She teaches UC Berkeley AAADS 20C.^[6]

Her short stories have appeared in The American Voice, Calyx, City Lights Review, Crescent Review, and Harper's Magazine.^[7] She currently teaches at UC Berkeley and UCLA in the English and Asian American Studies departments.^[8]

Awards

• nominated and finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, for Bone
• grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• 2008 American Book Award for Steer Toward Rock
• 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship^[9]

Works

• Bone, Hyperion, 1993
• Steer Toward Rock. Hyperion. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7868-6097-5. Fae Myenne Ng.
• Orphan Bachelors. Grove, 2023. ISBN 978-0-8021-6222-9.^[10]

Anthologies

• Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn, ed. (1993). Charlie Chan is dead: an anthology of contemporary Asian American fiction. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-14-023111-3.
• Sylvia Watanabe; Carol Bruchac, eds. (1990). Home to stay: Asian American women's fiction. Greenfield Review Press. ISBN 978-0-912678-76-4.
• Shawn Wong, ed. (1996). Asian American literature: a brief introduction and anthology. HarperCollins College Pub. ISBN 978-0-673-46977-9.