Alyssa Wong

Alyssa Wong
Alyssa Wong
Born	Surprise, Arizona
Occupation	Author
Genre	Speculative fiction
Website
	www.crashwong.net

Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. Wong is 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, Wong was hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.^[4] Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Doctor Aphra Star Wars comic series scheduled for release in April 2020.^[5]^[6]

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, Marv Wolfman, John Arcudi, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert, Garth Ennis, Amedeo Turturro, and Brandon Thomas, 2020)
Sensational Wonder Woman #6 (2021)

Marvel[]

Aero #1-12 (2020-Present)
Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery Of Madame Huang (2021)
Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3 (with Karla Pacheco and Dan Slott, 2021)
Future Fight Firsts (2021)
Future Fight Firsts: Luna Snow (2019)
The Legend Of Shang-Chi #1 (2021)
Marvel-Verse: Shang-Chi (with Paul Tobin, Fred Van Lente, Jeph York, Cm Punk, and Dan Slott, 2021)
Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1-12 (2020-Present)

Awards[]

2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),^[7] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),^[8] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),^[9] for "The Fisher Queen".^[10]
2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Winner),^[7] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (Winner),^[11] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (Finalist),^[12] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),^[13] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,^[14] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".^[2]
2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (Finalist)^[15] (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.)^[16]
2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (Winner),^[17] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (Finalist),^[18] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (Finalist)^[19] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".^[20]
2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),^[17] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (Finalist),^[18] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (Finalist)^[19] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".^[21]

References[]

^ "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". ISFDB. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. 2015-10-14. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
^ "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
^ Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018). "Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong". Heroes Never Die. Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
^ Rocket, Stubby the (2019-10-31). "Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic". Tor.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
^ "'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series - Exclusive". StarWars.com. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Nebula Awards – SFWA". SFWA. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
^ "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
^ "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
^ "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
^ "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
^ "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
^ "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
^ "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
^ "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
^ This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. 2017-06-24. Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2017-06-25.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "2016 - The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-07-01.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". Uncanny Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-06.
^ "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". Tor.com. 2016-03-02. Archived from the original on 2017-07-01. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

External links[]

Preceded by Scott Nicolay	World Fantasy Award—Short Fiction winner 2016	Succeeded by G. V. Anderson

[1] "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". ISFDB. Retrieved 2019-09-30.

[Nightmare-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. 2015-10-14. Archived from the original on 2016-06-21. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[3] "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived from the original on 2017-10-18. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

[4] Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018). "Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong". Heroes Never Die. Archived from the original on 2018-08-01. Retrieved August 1, 2018.

[5] Rocket, Stubby the (2019-10-31). "Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic". Tor.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.

[6] "'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series - Exclusive". StarWars.com. 2020-01-23. Retrieved 2021-02-08.

[Nebula-7] Jump up to: ^a ^b "Nebula Awards – SFWA". SFWA. Archived from the original on 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[8] "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-04. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

[9] "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[10] "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[11] "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

[12] "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

[13] "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[14] "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-06-16. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[Midamericon-15] "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-18.

[Puppy-16] This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019

[Locus-17] Jump up to: ^a ^b "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. 2017-06-24. Archived from the original on 2017-06-25. Retrieved 2017-06-25.

[Nebula_Novelette-18] Jump up to: ^a ^b "2016 - The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

[Hugo_Novelette-19] Jump up to: ^a ^b "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. Archived from the original on 2017-08-11. Retrieved April 4, 2017.

[20] "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". Uncanny Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-03-07. Retrieved 2017-03-06.

[21] "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". Tor.com. 2016-03-02. Archived from the original on 2017-07-01. Retrieved 2017-07-01.

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