Jack Wang

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What’s the best writing advice you’ve ever received?

Lauren Groff says to write where the heat is. You don’t have to write in a linear, orderly, or plodding way. Write whatever’s on fire in your imagination.

What’s your advice to new writers?

Remember Flaubert: “Talent is long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.”

Jack Wang is the author of We Two Alone (House of Anansi, HarperVia), winner of the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best debut collection in English in Canada. His stories have been longlisted for the Journey Prize and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In 2014-15, he held the David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and he is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. He teaches writing at Ithaca College.