NIGHTJAR: Stories and Poems

by Freeman Ng

Paperback

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

Freeman Ng is a former Google software engineer and the author of Bridge Across the Sky , a YA verse novel based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900s (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2024); Basho’s Haiku Journeys , a haiku picture book (Stone Bridge Press, 2021); The House We Sheltered In and The Masks We Wore , a pandemic picture book; Haiku Diem , a daily haiku feed; and Trumpbert , a political webcomic. He’s also the creator and illustrator of The Shape a Wing Makes , selected poems of Fran Claggett-Holland paired with Freeman’s digital art, and the co-author, with Peter Dale Scott, of Poetry and Terror: Politics and Poetics in Coming to Jakarta , a discussion of Scott’s seminal book-length poem that combined autobiography with an exposé of the 1965 Indonesian Massacre (Bloomsbury USA, 2019). Ripples, a picture book about gravitational waves and friendship written by Freeman and illustrated by Daniel Miyares, is forthcoming from Neal Porter Books in Fall 2027.