Yang Huang
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Born | Jiangsu, China | June 13, 1971
Occupation | Writer |
Alma mater | University of Arizona, Boston College, Florida Atlantic University, Tongji University |
Yang Huang (born June 13, 1971) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Living Treasures, was a finalist for the 2008 Bellwether Prize and 2014 Foreword Review's INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards Finalist. Her short story collection, My Old Faithful, won 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction.
Early life
Yang Huang studied applied physics at Tongji University from 1988 to 1990, received a B.S in computer science in 1993 and B.A. in English literature in 1996 from Florida Atlantic University, an M.A in English literature from Boston College in 1998, and an MFA in creative writing from University of Arizona in 2000.
Career
Her stories have been featured in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Stories for Film, FUTURES, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Nuvein Magazine, and The Evansville Review.
Her short story "A Spell of Spring Dream" was nominated for the Pushcart prize.
Works
- Living Treasures; Harvard Square Editions 2014, ISBN 978-0-9895960-5-3
Personal life
Yang Huang works at UC Berkeley. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. She is married with two children.
External links
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women short story writers
- American short story writers
- American women novelists
- Boston College alumni
- University of Arizona alumni
- Florida Atlantic University alumni
- Tongji University alumni
- Novelists from Florida
- American writers of Chinese descent
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- American novelists of Asian descent
- 21st-century American women writers