Shelley Wong (’16) Shelley Wong is the author of As She Appears (YesYes Books, 2022), winner of a Lambda Literary Award and longlisted for the National Book Award. She has received fellowships and support from Kundiman, MacDowell, and Montavlo Arts Center. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The New Republic. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships, residencies, and support from Kundiman, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Montalvo Arts Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Willapa Bay AiR, Vermont Studio Center, I-Park Foundation, Fire Island National Seashore, and SPACE.