Stella Wong is a poet with degrees from Harvard and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Wong's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in POETRY, Colorado Review, Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Cortland Review, Tupelo Quarterly, BOAAT, Narrative, Poetry Northwest, and the LA Review of Books. She is the winner of the 2016 Academy of American Poets University Prize and the 2018 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize judged by Danez Smith.

Books by Stella Wong:

Other poems on the web by Stella Wong:
"Halloween"
"Not Your Bernini's Daphne"
Two poems
"Fu er dai"
Two poems
"The sign for power"

Stella Wong's Website.

About American Zero:

"Stella Wong wields the kind of weaponry I live to be slayed by. Funny as hell, delightfully strange and full of a sneaky and giant heart, American Zero is holds its beloved subjects — friends, siblings, Lucy Liu, grapefruits, all the jesuses the poet can muster — and gives them body with wicked imagination and knock-out tenderness. This book will knock the windows of your heart not just open, but out the frame once you see how far Wong can dive into fear and the terrible possibles of humanness can still carry back something like hope, gooder than joy. Wong has crafted a brief, but mighty collection of poems that point towards the bright possibly of power to make us better dreamers, better lovers, better homies, and oh my jesuses how thankful I am for this abundant offering. I'm sure you will be too."
—Danez Smith

"If poetry were a biathlon, Stella Wong would take the gold. She's a solid skier and a crack shot, each poem a bullet hitting its mark. Thank God she's turned all of this energy and accuracy into poetry. 'Where do you put your body of color' she asks. Then proceeds to school everyone. Stella Wong is a force, a maker, a master."
—D.A. Powell

"Bookended by dramatic appeals to Lucy Liu and America itself, another name for Stella Wong's exciting, candid, incantatory American Zero might be 'American Presence,' for Wong's is a crisp new voice intently, intensely, undeniably zeroing in, and it's certainly not for nothing that the important last word of the important last poem is 'here.'"
—Robyn Schiff