Faculty

JACK WANG earned a BSc from the University of Toronto, an MFA from the University of Arizona, and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from Florida State University. He is the author of the story collection We Two Alone (House of Anansi Press, 2020; HarperVia 2021), longlisted for Canada Reads 2022, shortlisted for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and winner of the 2021 Central New York Book Award in Fiction and the 2020 Danuta Gleed Literary Award from the Writers' Union of Canada for best debut collection in English. His fiction has appeared in Brick, PRISM International, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Humber Literary Review, and Joyland and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and longlisted for the Writers' Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. In 2014-15, he held the David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England; in 2021, he received a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts and a Research and Creation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. He is also the co-creator of two popular board book series, Cozy Classics and Star Wars Epic Yarns. He has taught at Ithaca College since 2006 and served as department chair from 2011-14 and 2017-20. Originally from Vancouver, he lives in Ithaca with his wife, novelist Angelina Mirabella, and their two daughters.