MY STORY
I was born in Fenyang, a coal-mining city in China’s mountainous Shanxi Province. I immigrated to the United States when I was six and have lived in ten states. I hold a PhD in Literature from Florida State University and an MFA in Fiction from Purdue. My story collection, Further News of Defeat, won the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the 2022 Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writers Award. It was also a finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award. My debut novel, Lost in the Long March, came out in fall 2022 from Abrams: The Overlook Press.
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My fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Southern Review, The New England Review, Greensboro Review, Juked, and many other journals. Currently, I am working on two novel projects and teach as an Assistant Professor in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.
Third-Person Biography
Michael X. Wang was born in Fenyang, a coal-mining city in China's mountainous Shanxi Province. He immigrated to the United States when he was six, and holds a PhD in Literature from Florida State University and an MFA in Fiction from Purdue. His story collection, Further News of Defeat, won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Great Lakes Colleges Association's New Writer Award. It was also a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award. His debut novel, Lost in the Long March, came out November 2022 from The Overlook Press. He is currently at work on two novel projects and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing in the MFA program at the University of Mississippi.