Author: Nellie Wong
Bio: Nellie Wong has published five books: *Dreams in Harrison Railroad Park*, *The Death of Long Steam Lady*, *Stolen Moments*, *Breakfast Lunch Dinner* and *Nothing Like Freedom*. Her poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies, including *This Bridge Called My Back: Writings By Radical Women of Color*, and excerpts from two poems have been permanently installed at public sites at the San Francisco Municipal Railway. A building at Oakland High School is named after her, she is co-featured in the documentary film, *Mitsuye and Nellie Asian American Poets*, and a poem of hers was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She traveled to China in the First American Women Writers Tour with Alice Walker, Tillie Olsen, and Paule Marshall, among others. She taught poetry writing at Mills College and women’s studies at the University of Minnesota, and was the recipient of the 2022 PEN Oakland/Reginald Lockett Lifetime Achievement Award.