Nancy Au

A little bit more about me: My short stories, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, and essays--which have appeared in close to forty literary journals and anthologies including Gulf Coast, Craft Literary, Catapult, Atticus Review--often center on the experiences of the elderly, the young, immigrants, and first-generation US born characters. I endeavor to write about (and to amplify, diversify, complicate) the voices that have been historically ignored (or stereotyped or diminished or demonized) within academia, literature, theater, film, television, and other media. I am particularly interested in exploring in my art, the lives of American-born Chinese and Chinese immigrants.

I graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a degree in sociocultural anthropology. I have an MFA from San Francisco State University where I also teach creative writing. I co-founded The Escapery, a collective of artists dedicated to diversity, and to writing and art as a form of resistance. I am a submissions editor with the fabulous flash fiction journal, SmokeLong Quarterly. I love how mathematics informs poetry, folktales inform anthropology, biology informs art, theater informs astronomy, physics informs flash fiction. I love how different professional and academic disciplines enrich one another in ways that often defy our expectations. In other words, I love words, I love language, I love science, I love to write, I love to teach, and I would love to hear from you! And, if you would like to learn more about what I'm up to, please check out my page dedicated to misfits and writing! Thank you so much for visiting!