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Alison Wong


Born
New Zealand
Genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction


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Alison Wong (born 1960) is a New Zealand poet of Chinese heritage. Her background in mathematics comes across in her poetry, not as a subject, but in the careful formulation of words to white space and precision. She has a half-Chinese son with New Zealand poet Linzy Forbes.

Wong has received various awards for her fiction and poetry including the 2002 Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago, a Readers Digest - New Zealand Society of Authors Fellowship at the Stout Research Centre and a NZ Founders Society Research Award. She has been a finalist in several poetry competitions and received grants from Creative NZ and the Willi Fels Memorial Trust.

In 2003 she has been a guest writer at the ...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 830 ratings · 125 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
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The Product Design Process
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