Discipline: Literature – fiction

Xuan Juliana Wang

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2018

Xuan Juliana Wang is the author of the debut story collection, Home Remedies (Hogarth, 2019), which she edited at MacDowell. In residence, she also outlined a new draft of her debut novel Let it Be Me to be published in 2020. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Narrative, and The Pushcart Prize and The Best American Nonrequired Reading anthologies.

She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and earned her M.F.A. at Columbia University. She has received fellowships and awards from Yaddo, MacDowell, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Cite des Arts International Paris, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Elizabeth George Foundation.

Juliana was born in Heilongjiang, China, but after age seven, did most of her growing up in Los Angeles. She currently lives in New York and California.

Studios

New Jersey

Xuan Juliana Wang worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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