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Yen-Rong Wong is an arts critic and award-winning writer working between Yugambeh and Jagera and Turrbal lands. She won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer in 2022, and the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award in 2020. She has been a Wheeler Centre Hot Desk fellow and writer-in-residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre. She is a frequent contributor to The Saturday Paper as a theatre critic, and her work has appeared in many print and online publications, including The Guardian, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, and Griffith Review. Me, Her, Us is her debut book of non-fiction.
'Smart, audacious and deadpan funny, a book that interrogates a young woman's quest for identity and belonging in intrepid and unexpected ways.' Alice Pung 'Me, Her, Us is a gift, speaking loudly in the silences so many of us will recognise, playing a vital role in ensuring those silences cease to exist for the generations to come.' Yassmin Abdel-Magied 'Yen-Rong Wong is whip smart in her assertions on language, subcultures and family ties, and takes readers on a journey that is as unapologetic as it is vulnerable.' Michelle Law 'A powerful and important work of non-fiction that comes at the right time - a time when Australians are asking for more from their literature. Yen-Rong Wong's writing is as unflinching as it is revelatory, giving voice to the author's lived experience as a Chinese-presenting young woman in Australia and offering a fresh and compelling literary perspective.' Judges' comments, QLA Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer
