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Michael X. Wang

This guide is for Michael X. Wang's September 2022 Kelly Writers reading. Wang was born in Fenyang, a small coal-mining city in China's Shanxi Province and immigrated to the United States when he was six.

Reading

Michael X. Wang will read on September 7, 2022 at 7:30 pm

Michael X. Wang holds a PhD in Literature from Florida State University and an MFA in Fiction from Purdue University. Further News of Defeat won the 2011 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. His debut novel, Lost in the Long March, is forthcoming from Abrams: The Overlook Press. His fiction has appeared in The England ReviewGreensboro ReviewJuked, and many other journals. 

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