American writer
Alyssa Wong is an American writer ofspeculative fiction,comics,poetry, andgames. They are a recipient of theNebula Award,World Fantasy Award, andLocus Award.[1]
Wong studied fiction atNorth Carolina State University,[2] graduating in 2017 with aMaster of Fine Arts.[3] In July 2018, they were hired byBlizzard Entertainment as a writer onOverwatch.[4] Wong is the writer forMarvel Comics'sStar Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020, the 2022Deadpool andIron Fist series, as well as theAlligator Loki webtoon series onMarvel Unlimited,[5][6][7][8] andPsylocke (since 2024).
Wong isqueer andnon-binary and usesthey/them pronouns.[9]
- The High Republic: Escape from Valo (2024)[10]
- A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (2016)
- "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)
- "For the Gardener's Daughter" (2015)
- "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)
- 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 (withTim Seeley, Dennis Culver and A.L. Kaplan, 2022)
- Spirit World #1–6 (2023)
- 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 andDan 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)
- 2014Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[11] 2014Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),[12] 2015World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[13] for "The Fisher Queen".[14]
- 2015Nebula Award for Best Short Story (winner),[11] 2016World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (winner),[15] 2015Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),[16] 2016Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[17] 2015Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,[18] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".[2]
- 2016John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (finalist)[19] (As well, an analysis byIo9 indicated that, if not for theSad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Wong would have also been a finalist for the 2015 award.)[20]
- 2017Locus Award for Best Novelette (winner),[21] 2016Nebula Award for Best Novelette (finalist),[22][23] 2017Hugo Award for Best Novelette (finalist)[24] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".[25]
- 2017Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[21] 2016Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),[22] 2017Hugo Award for Best Short Story (finalist)[24] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".[26]
- ^"Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong".ISFDB. RetrievedSeptember 30, 2019.
- ^ab"Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".Nightmare Magazine. October 14, 2015.Archived from the original on June 21, 2016. RetrievedJune 18, 2016.
- ^"Poets & Writers".www.pw.org.North Carolina State University.Archived from the original on October 18, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017.
- ^Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018)."Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong".Heroes Never Die.Archived from the original on August 1, 2018. RetrievedAugust 1, 2018.
- ^Rocket, Stubby the (October 31, 2019)."Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic".Tor.com. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2021.
- ^"'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series – Exclusive".StarWars.com. January 23, 2020. RetrievedFebruary 8, 2021.
- ^Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022)."Syndicated Comics".The Beat. RetrievedOctober 31, 2022.
- ^Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022)."Syndicated Comics".The Beat. RetrievedMay 4, 2023.
- ^Alyssa Wong (they/them) [@crashwong] (October 11, 2022)."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" (Tweet) – viaTwitter.
- ^"Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo by Daniel José Older, Alyssa Wong: 9781368093804 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books".PenguinRandomhouse.com. RetrievedFebruary 14, 2024.
- ^ab"Nebula Awards – SFWA".SFWA. November 25, 2009.Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. RetrievedJune 18, 2016.
- ^"2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners".www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards.Archived from the original on July 4, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017.
- ^"World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015".Locus Online. November 8, 2015.Archived from the original on June 13, 2016. RetrievedJune 18, 2016.
- ^"The Fisher Queen".fu-gen.org. Archived fromthe original on May 9, 2016. RetrievedJune 18, 2016.
- ^"sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016".www.sfadb.com.Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017.
- ^"2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners".www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards.Archived from the original on July 2, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017.
- ^"2016 Locus Awards Finalists".Locus Online. May 3, 2016.Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. RetrievedJune 18, 2016.
- ^"The Bram Stoker Awards".StokerCon 2016.Archived from the original on June 16, 2016. RetrievedJune 18, 2016.
- ^"2016 Hugo Finalists".MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016. RetrievedJune 18, 2016.
- ^This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, atIo9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
- ^ab"2017 Locus Awards Winners".www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. June 24, 2017.Archived from the original on June 25, 2017. RetrievedJune 25, 2017.
- ^ab"2016 – The Nebula Awards".The Nebula Awards.Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017.
- ^"Alyssa Wong Past Nominations and Wins".The Nebula Awards®. RetrievedMay 4, 2023.
- ^ab"2017 Hugo Awards".The Hugo Awards. December 31, 2016.Archived from the original on August 12, 2017. RetrievedApril 4, 2017.
- ^"You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".Uncanny Magazine.Archived from the original on March 7, 2017. RetrievedMarch 6, 2017.
- ^"A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".Tor.com. March 2, 2016.Archived from the original on July 1, 2017. RetrievedJuly 1, 2017.
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