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Jane Wong
American poet and professor
Jane Wong is an American poet and professor at Western Washington University. She is the author of the full-length poetry collections Overpour and How Not to Be Afraid of Everything and has been published in Best American Poetry 2015 and Best New Poets 2012.[1] Wong grew up in Tinton Falls, New Jersey, where her parents owned a Chinese restaurant, and where Jane remembers much of her childhood.[2] In 2023, she released her memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.[3]