Fae Myenne Ng

Fae Myenne Ng’s work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, the NEA, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute. She had held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation. Her first novel, Bone, was a finalist for the 1994 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award. The second, Steer Toward Rock, was awarded a 2008 American Book Award. In 2009, she was a Guggenheim Fellow. Fae Ng will teach AAS 172: An Introduction to Asian American Literature. She plans to have students read novels that explore “the themes of love, loss, and the conflicted sexuality that is sometimes a consequence of border crossings, examining how these works reflect and illuminate social/political events in Asian American history.”