About

Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. Her novel DRAFTS OF A SUICIDE NOTE was a Foreword INDIES finalist and PEN Open Book Award nominee. LISTEN, WE ALL BLEED, her first essay collection, was an ASLE Book Award finalist, an EcoLit Best Environmental Book of 2021, and a PEN/Galbraith nominee. Her fiction chapbook AWABI won the Digging Press Chapbook Series Award and is now in its second edition.

THE BOX, her next novel, will be published by Graywolf Press in September 2023.

Other Works

  • Listen, we all bleed.

    2021
  • Artificial Wilderness

    2020
  • Animals Across Discipline, Time & Space

    2020
  • Drafts of a Suicide Note

    2019
  • Awabi

    2019

Awards and Recognition

  • Finalist, ALSE Book Award, 2022 - Listen, we all bleed
  • Finalist, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, 2019 - Drafts of a Suicide Note
  • Finalist (Fiction: General), American Book Fest's Best Book Award, 2019 - Drafts of a Suicide Note
  • Finalist, Eyelands Book Award, 2019 - Drafts of a Suicide Note
  • Winner, Selcouth Station Press Environmental Chapbook Competition, 2019 - Artificial Wilderness
  • Finalist and Honorable Mention, Red Hen Press Women's Prose Prize Competition, 2019 - Listen, we all bleed
  • Winner, Digging Press Chapbook Series Competition, 2018 - Awabi
  • Winner, Eyelands/Strange Days Books International Flash Fiction Contest, 2018 - "Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)"
  • Finalist, Permafrost Book Prize, 2018 - Drafts of a Suicide Note
  • Honorable Mention, Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest, 2017 - Drafts of a Suicide Note
  • Semifinalist, Conium Review Book Prize, 2016 - Drafts of a Suicide Note
  • Shortlist, Santa Fe Writers’ Project Literary Award, 2015 - Drafts of a Suicide Note
  • Shortlist, Aeon Award, 2015 - Persimmon Wonderseeker and the Mystery of the Deadly Lambshade