JACK WANG Associate Professor Department of Writing Ithaca College 416 Smiddy Hall 953 Danby Road Ithaca, NY 14850 607-274-1065 [email protected] jackwangauthor.com ___________________________ EDUCATION Florida State University, Ph.D. in English (creative writing/fiction), 2006 Major area: the novel; minor area: Asian American fiction Preliminary examinations passed with distinction Dissertation: The West End (novel); director: Robert Olen Butler University of Arizona, M.F.A. (creative writing/fiction), 1997 Thesis: Imagining the Jazz Age (stories); director: Robert Houston Oxford University, tutorial in poetry writing, Oxford Associate Summer Program, 1994 Tutor: Keith Jebb University of Toronto, B.Sc. with high distinction, 1994 Majors: Biology and Anthropology; minor: English ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor (2012-present), Assistant Professor (2006-12), Department of Writing, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York WRTG 43600: Writing the Novella WRTG 41500: Senior Seminar: State of the Art: American Fiction in Academe & Publishing WRTG 41500: Senior Seminar: The Short Story Cycle WRTG 41500: Senior Seminar: History and Theory of the Novel WRTG 41000: Senior Project WRTG 33600: Fiction Writing II WRTG 23600: Fiction Writing I: Short Story WRTG 20500: Personal Essay WRTG 10600: Academic Writing I Ithaca Seminar 10800: The Science of Fiction: Evolution, Cognitive Science, and Stories Ithaca Seminar 10169: How the Mind Works: Writing About Consciousness David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellow, School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2014-15 Nine-month project-based residential writing fellowship for a fiction writer writing in English about some significant aspect of the Far East (£26,000). Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 2002-05 English 3310: Article and Essay Workshop Literature 2020: The Short Story English 1142: Writing Literary Short Stories English 1102: Freshman Research Writing English 1101: Freshman Composition and Rhetoric * Nominee, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, 2004 Instructor, Department of English, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, 1998-2002 English 342: Creative Writing: Fiction Honors 300: Pulitzer Prize Fiction of the 1990’s Honors 241: Asian American Literature Honors 198: The Research Paper English 191: Rhetorical and Analytical Writing English 184: Introduction to Literature Adjunct Instructor, Department of Writing, Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona, Fall 1997 Writing 102: Introduction to Literature Writing 101: Introduction to Expository Writing Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 1994-97 English 210: Introduction to Fiction Writing English 197A: Med-Start Summer Program English 104H: First-year Composition II, Honors English 103H: First-year Composition I, Honors English 102: First-year Composition II English 101: First-year Composition I * Certificate of Commendation for excellence in teaching, College of Humanities, 1996 * Johnie Raye Harper Memorial Award, best first-semester Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, 1995 2 OTHER APPOINTMENTS § Chair, Department of Writing, Ithaca College, 2017-20, 2011-14 § Director, Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, Department of Writing, Ithaca College, 2008-11. Writers hosted: Charles Baxter, Jo Ann Beard, Eula Biss, Robert Olen Butler, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Stephen Dunn, Jennifer Egan, Jeffrey Eugenides, Vivian Gornick, Matthea Harvey, Barbara Heard, Major Jackson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paisley Rekdal, Philip Schultz, A. O. Scott, Jean Valentine, Eliot Weinberger, C.K. Williams § Graduate Assistant to the Director, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Florida State University, 2004-06. GUEST TEACHING § “The Science of Fiction,” lecture, MFA in Creative Writing (Optional Residency), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 2021 § “On Holding Attention,” five-day prose workshop, Chautauqua Writers’ Center, Chautauqua Institute, NY, Aug. 2020 BOOKS § The Riveters (novel), HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins (US, UK, and Australia/ New Zealand) and House of Anansi Press (Canada), due to the publishers in 2022 § We Two Alone (story collection), HarperVia (US), June 2021; (UK) July 2021; (Australia/New Zealand), Sept. 2021 and House of Anansi Press (Canada), Sept. 2020 Recognition for We Two Alone in Canada § Winner of the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers’ Union of Canada for best debut collection in English ($10,000 CAD) § Shortlisted for the 2021 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize § Best Canadian Fiction of 2020, CBC Books § Best Books of 2020, Quill & Quire § 2020 Fiction: Books of the Year, 49th Shelf Literary Festivals and Related Events § “New Fiction by Nana Nkweti, Emilio Fraia, and Jack Wang,” book talk, Brooklyn Public Library, June 2021 § Launch of the US edition of We Two Alone, Buffalo Street Books, Ithaca, NY, June 2021 § “The Science of Fiction,” lecture, Ottawa Independent Writers, May 2021 § “Boyz n the Void: A Reading by G’Ra Asim and Jack Wang,” Spring Writes Literary Festival, Ithaca, NY, May 2021 § “Collected Work: On Writing Short Forms, and Gathering Them into Book Form” with Leslie Daniels, Emily Fridlund, and Gina Nutt, Spring Writes Literary Festival, Ithaca, NY 2021 3 § “How to Pronounce Knife Book Talk,” Souvankham Thammavongsa in conversation with Jack Wang, Innis College, University of Toronto, Mar. 2021 § “The Short Story: Getting In Between Spaces” with Souvankham Thammavongsa, book talk, Wild Writers Literary Festival, Nov. 2020 § “On Holding Attention,” lecture, Wild Writers Literary Festival, Nov. 2020 § “The Immigrant Experience” with Marc Herman Lynch, book talk, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct. 2020 § “The Afternoon Tea” with Caroline Adderson, Francesca Ekwuyasi, Will Ferguson, Michelle Good, and Kevin Spenst, reading, Vancouver Writers Festival, Oct. 2020 § Prose podcast with Amanda Leduc, Catherine Hernandez, and Zsuzsi Gartner, Victoria Festival of Authors, Sept. 2020 § “Time Travel: Narratives That Traverse Through Past, Present and Future” with Kawika Guillermo and Leslie Shimotakahara, book talk, Word Vancouver, Sept. 2020 § Launch of the Canadian edition of We Two Alone, moderated by Gil Adamson, Innis College, University of Toronto, Sept. 2020 § “At the Crossroads” with Kaie Kellough, book talk, Words Across Canada/Word on the Street Toronto, Sept. 2020 Interviews § “10 Questions,” Poets & Writers, June 2021 § “Q&A: Jack Wang,” Ithaca.com, June 2021 § “Interview with Jack Wang,” thecommentary.ca with Joseph Planta, Oct. 2020 § “The Chat with Jack Wang,” 49th Shelf, Oct. 2020 § “Q&A with Jack Wang,” Victoria Festival of Authors, Sept. 2020 § All Points West with Kathryn Marlow, CBC Radio, Sept. 2020 § “‘Talent is Long Patience’: Jack Wang on Teaching Writing & Why Talent and Genius Aren’t the Endgame,” Open Book, Sept. 2020 § Here and Now Toronto with Gill Deacon, CBC Radio, Sept. 2020 Reviews and Selected Press § “What Books Do Your Local Canadian Authors Have on Their Summer Readings Lists?” (We Two Alone recommended by Gil Adamson), Toronto Star, June 2021 § “17 Historical Fiction Books You’ll Want to Get Your Hands on This Summer,” Buzzfeed, June 2021 § “Review: We Two Alone by Jack Wang,” StarTribune (MN), June 2021 § “Review: We Two Alone” (starred review), Shelf Awareness, June 2021 § “Review: We Two Alone,” Publishers Weekly, June 2021 § “Review: We Two Alone,” New York Journal of Books, June 2021 § “10 Short Story Collections to Read This Summer,” Literary Hub, June 2021 § “Jack Wang Awarded Writers’ Union Danuta Gleed Literary Award for His Stunning Collection We Two Alone,” Open Book, May 2021 § “Jack Wang Wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Best First Short Story Collection for We Two Alone,” CBC Books, May 2021 § “Jack Wang Wins Danuta Gleed for Debut Short Fiction Collection,” Quill & Quire, May 2021 4 § “15 Books by Asian Canadian Authors to Read for Asian Heritage Month,” CBC Books, May 2021 § “Significant Others,” The Literary Review of Canada, Apr. 2021 § “13 Great 2021 Short Story Collections by Asian Authors,” Book Riot, Mar. 2021 § “The Best Canadian Fiction of 2020,” CBC Books, Dec. 2020 § “2020 Fiction: Books of the Year,” 49th Shelf, Dec. 2020 § “2020 Books of the Year: Industry Picks,” Quill & Quire, Nov. 2020 § “The CBC Books Fall 2020 Reading List, CBC Books, Nov. 2020 § “The Books We Love,” ZED: The Zoomer Book Club, Oct. 2020 § “Their Books Came Out, but They Can’t: Debut Authors on the Grief and Gratitude of Pandemic Publishing,” Toronto Star, Oct. 2020 § “BIPOC writers like Souvankham Thammavongsa and Ian Williams Show an Experience of Canada that Many of Us Do Not Know,” The Globe & Mail, Oct. 2020 § “Stories Highlight Chinese Diaspora,” Winnipeg Free Press, Oct. 2020 § “Rogue Reverberating,” The Ormsby Review, Sept. 2020 § “Stunning Short Story Collections in 2020,” 49th Shelf, Sept. 2020 § “New and Notable Releases,” Toronto Star, Sept. 2020 § “Books to Watch for at the 2020 Vancouver Writers Fest,” Shrapnel Magazine, July 2020 § “Summer Books Preview,” Toronto Star, July 2020 § “10 Writers Make Longlist for $10,000 Journey Prize for Short Fiction,” CBC Books, July 2017 SHORT FICTION § “Everything In Between,” Brick: A Literary Journal, Issue 107, Summer 2021 § “Belsize Park,” PRISM international, Issue 57.1, Fall 2018 § “The Nature of Things,” The Journey Prize Stories 29, McClelland