From the Bronx, New York, Wen Wen Yang is the eldest child of Chinese immigrants. She has gaps in her Wenzhounese that charades cannot overcome. In exchange for her first language, she earned an English, Creative Writing degree from Barnard College, Columbia University. There, she also studied Mandarin for three years, then did not speak it again. All her stories are in English. An up-to-date bibliography is on WenWenWrites.com.
