Episode 24: Shelley Wong (Of Quietness, Fire Island, and Looking at Each Other)

Shelley Wong, author of AS SHE APPEARS (YesYes Books, 2022), photographed by Margarita Corporan

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Read: Shelley Wong’s poem “To Yellow,” which she reads on Episode 24.

Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, May 2022), winner of the 2019 Pamet River Prize. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American PoetryKenyon Review, and New England Review. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Vermont Studio Center. She is an affiliate artist at Headlands Center for the Arts and lives in San Francisco.

Purchase: As She Appears (YesYes Books, 2022).