Jane Wong holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and Kundiman Fellow.  She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Squaw Valley, and the Fine Arts Work Center.  Her chapbooks include: Dendrochronology (dancing girl press), Kudzu Does Not Stop (Organic Weapon Arts), and Impossible Map (Fact-Simile). She is the author of OVERPOUR, which is forthcoming in the fall of 2016 (Action Books). Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University.

She is the winner of the 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize for her poem "I Put on My Fur Coat."