Full Biography
Anna Wang, born and raised in Beijing, China, received her BA from Peking University and is a full-time bilingual writer. She has published nine books in Chinese. These include two short story collections, one essay collection, four novels, and two translations. One of her short story collection was translated into English by Colin Hawes and Shuyu Kong and published in 2014 as Beijing Women: Stories. Her first book in English, a 2019 memoir, Inconvenient Memories, recounts her experience and observation of the Tiananmen Square Protest in 1989 from the perspective of a member of the emerging middle-class. The book won an Independent Press Award in the "Cultural and Social Issues" category in 2020. Her articles appeared in Newsweek, Vancouver Sun, Ms. Magazine, LA Review of Books China Channel, Ricepaper Magazine, etc.
