Dec 14, 2022
How to Talk Socialism with Your Fictionalized Parents
To write about my socialist family in a capitalist society necessarily means truth and lies are mixed up.
Ryan Lee Wong
Instructor & Writer
Ryan Lee Wong is author of the forthcoming novel Which Side Are You On (Catapult, October '22).
He was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of a fifth-generation Chinese American father and a Korean immigrant mother. Previously, he served as Program Director for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Managing Director of Kundiman. He has organized exhibitions and written extensively on the Asian American movements of the 1970s.
He holds an MFA in Fiction from Rutgers-Newark and served on the Board of the Jerome Foundation. He lived for two years at Ancestral Heart Zen Temple and is based in Brooklyn.
Author portrait by Beowulf Sheehan
