How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

Jane Wong is an American poet born to Chinese immigrant parents in New Jersey, whose work engages diaspora, family history, ecological grief, and the interior lives of women of color. She is the author of Overpour (Action Books, 2016) and How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James Books, 2021). Her poetry appears in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the University of Washington, and is an associate professor at Western Washington University in Bellingham.