Mimi Wong was born and raised in California’s Silicon Valley. She is Editor-in-Chief of
The Offing. Her writing on art, culture, and literature have appeared in
The Believer,
Catapult,
Electric Literature,
Hyperallergic,
Literary Hub, and
Refinery29. Her fiction has been published in
Cicada,
Crab Orchard Review,
Day One, and
Wildness. She is an alumna of the Tin House Summer Workshop, VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation), and Anaphora Writing Residency for Writers of Color. Her work has received support from the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and she is a 2019 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is at work on a novel, an excerpt of which appears here. Find her online at
mimi-wong.com.
