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Fae Myenne Ng
American writer
Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2,[1] 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist and short story writer.
She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novelBone 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
[edit]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]
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With the publication of Bone (Hyperion, 1993), an unsparing look into the lives of three daughters of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Fae Myenne Ng seemed to burst upon the literary scene. In reality, she had been steadily refining her writing for almost two decades, and had been crafting Bone for ten years.
Ms. Ng knew her subject first hand: a Cantonese-speaking daughter of Chinese immigrants, she grew up in San Francisco’s Chinatown; her father was a merchant seaman, and her mother, a seamstress. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1978) and Columbia University (M.F.A., 1984), she worked as a waitress and occasionally as a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz and Berkeley in order to support her writing. In the early years of her career she had had some success in publishing stories, including “A Red Sweater,” which won a Pushcart Prize in 1987, and her talents had earned her a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship (1987), and Fellowships from Radcliffe College’s Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute (1988) and the NEA (1990). Her story collection, The First Dead Man and Others, received the San Francisco Foundation’s Joseph Henry Jackson Award (1988). She had also been a resident Fellow at the McDowell C