Alyssa Wong

Alyssa Wong is an American writer of speculative fiction, comics, poetry, and games. They are a recipient of the Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Locus Award.^[1]

Wong studied fiction at North Carolina State University,^[2] graduating in 2017 with a Master of Fine Arts.^[3] In July 2018, they were hired by Blizzard Entertainment as a writer on Overwatch.^[4] Wong is the writer for Marvel Comics's Star Wars: Doctor Aphra comic series that began in 2020, the 2022 Deadpool and Iron Fist series, as well as the Alligator Loki webtoon series on Marvel Unlimited,^[5][6][7][8] and Psylocke (since 2024).

Personal life

Wong is queer and non-binary and uses they/them pronouns.^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

• The High Republic: Escape from Valo (2024)^[10]

Chapbooks

• A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers (2016)

Short fiction

• "The Fisher Queen" (2014)
• "Scarecrow" (2014)
• "Santos de Sampaguitas" (2014)
• "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" (2015)
• "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers" (2016)
• "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay" (2016)
• "Rabbit Heart" (2016)
• "Natural Skin" (2016)
• "The White Dragon" (2016)
• "Your Bones Will Not Be Unknown" (2016)
• "God Product" (2017)
• "A Clamor of Bones" (2017)
• "All the Time We've Left to Spend" (2018)
• "What My Mother Left Me" (2018)
• "Olivia's Table" (2018)
• "What You Left Behind" (2019)
• "Wolf Trap", From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi, (Del Rey, August 2023)

Poems

• "For the Gardener's Daughter" (2015)

Essays

• "Here's How It Goes" (2015)
• "Buzzword" (2016)
• "The H Word: The Darkest, Truest Mirrors" (2016)
• "They Love Me Not: How Fictional Villains Saved My Life" (2016)

Comics

DC

• DC The Doomed and the Damned #1 (with Travis G. Moore, Saladin Ahmed, Marv Wolfman, John Arcudi, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert, Garth Ennis, Amedeo Turturro, and Brandon Thomas, 2020)
• Sensational Wonder Woman #6 (2021)
• Lazarus Planet: Dark Fate #1 (with Tim Seeley, Dennis Culver and A.L. Kaplan, 2022)
• Spirit World #1–6 (2023)

Marvel

• Aero #1–12 (2019)
• Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery of Madame Huang (2021)
• Alligator Loki #1–48 (with Bob Quinn, 2022–present)
• Captain Marvel (vol. 11) #1–10 (2023-2024)
• Carnage: Black, White & Blood #3 (with Karla Pacheco and Dan Slott, 2021)
• Deadpool (vol. 8) #1–10 (2022–2023)
• Future Fight Firsts:
  • White Fox one-shot (2019)
  • Luna Snow one-shot (2019)
  • Crescent and Io one-shot (2019)
• Iron Fist #1–5 (2022)
• Psylocke (vol. 2) #1– (2024–present)
• The Legend of Shang-Chi #1 (2021)
• Shang-Chi Infinity Comic (with Nathan Stockman, 2021)
• Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #1–40 (2020–2024)
• Star Wars: War of the Bounty Hunters – Boushh #1 (2021)

Awards

• 2014 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),^[11] 2014 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),^[12] 2015 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (finalist),^[13] for "The Fisher Queen".^[14]
• 2015 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (winner),^[15] 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Story (winner),^[16] 2015 Shirley Jackson Award (finalist),^[17] 2016 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),^[18] 2015 Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction,^[19] for "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers".^[2]
• 2016 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer (finalist)^[20] (As well, an analysis by Io9 indicated that, if not for the Sad Puppies ballot manipulation campaign, Wong would have also been a finalist for the 2015 award.)^[21]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Novelette (winner),^[22] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (finalist),^[23][24] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novelette (finalist)^[25] for "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay".^[26]
• 2017 Locus Award for Best Short Story (finalist),^[22] 2016 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (finalist),^[23] 2017 Hugo Award for Best Short Story (finalist)^[25] for "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers".^[27]

References

1. ^ "Summary Bibliography: Alyssa Wong". ISFDB. Retrieved September 30, 2019.
2. ^ "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers". Nightmare Magazine. October 14, 2015. Archived June 21, 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
3. ^ "Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. North Carolina State University. Archived October 18, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
4. ^ Goslin, Austen (August 1, 2018). "Overwatch writing team adds Nebula Award winner Alyssa Wong". Heroes Never Die. Archived August 1, 2018 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
5. ^ Rocket, Stubby the (October 31, 2019). "Nebula Award Winner Alyssa Wong to Write New Star Wars: Doctor Aphra Comic". Tor.com. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
6. ^ "'You Never Know What's Going to Happen': Alyssa Wong on Her Upcoming Doctor Aphra Series – Exclusive". StarWars.com. January 23, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
7. ^ Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
8. ^ Dar, Taimur (August 10, 2022). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
9. ^ Alyssa Wong (they/them) (October 11, 2022). "Coming out is a process, so be patient with yourself. I grew up thinking I had to stay in the closet, but my life has opened up since coming out as queer and non-binary". No. 1579903173283942400.
10. ^ "Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape from Valo by Daniel José Older, Alyssa Wong: 9781368093804 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2024-02-14.
11. ^ "2014 Nebula Awards". nebula.sfwa.org Retrieved 2026-04-28.
12. ^ "2014 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived July 4, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
13. ^ "World Fantasy Awards Winners 2015". Locus Online. November 8, 2015. Archived June 13, 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
14. ^ "The Fisher Queen". fu-gen.org. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
15. ^ "2015 Nebula Awards". nebula.sfwa.org Retrieved 2026-04-28.
16. ^ "sfadb: World Fantasy Awards 2016". www.sfadb.com. Archived June 2, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
17. ^ "2015 Shirley Jackson Awards Winners". www.shirleyjacksonawards.org. The Shirley Jackson Awards. Archived July 2, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
18. ^ "2016 Locus Awards Finalists". Locus Online. May 3, 2016. Archived June 16, 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
19. ^ "The Bram Stoker Awards". StokerCon 2016. Archived June 16, 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
20. ^ "2016 Hugo Finalists". MidAmericon II. Archived from the original on June 6, 2016. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
21. ^ This Is What The 2015 Hugo Ballot Should Have Been, by Andrew Liptak, at Io9; published August 23, 2015; retrieved March 13, 2019
22. ^ "2017 Locus Awards Winners". www.locusmag.com. Locus Online News. June 24, 2017. Archived June 25, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
23. ^ "2016 – The Nebula Awards". The Nebula Awards. Archived June 12, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 1, 2017.
24. ^ "Alyssa Wong Past Nominations and Wins". The Nebula Awards®. Retrieved May 4, 2023.
25. ^ "2017 Hugo Awards". The Hugo Awards. December 31, 2016. Archived August 12, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
26. ^ "You'll Surely Drown Here If You Stay". Uncanny Magazine. Archived March 7, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
27. ^ "A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers". Tor.com. March 2, 2016. Archived July 1, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved July 1, 2017.

External links

• Official website