Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Bermudian Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s acclaimed debut novel, Drafts of a Suicide Note (Regal House, 2019), was a finalist for American Book Fest’s Best Book Award for General Fiction, the Eyelands International Book Award, and the Permafrost Book Prize, as well as a Conium Review Book Prize semfinalist, a Santa Fe Writers’ Project Literary Award shortlistee, and a PEN Open Book Award nominee. She is also the author of the fiction chapbook Awabi (Digging Press, 2019), winner of the Digging Press Chapbook Series Award, and the nonfiction chapbook Artificial Wilderness, winner of the Selcouth Station Environmental Chapbook Competition (Selcouth Station Press, forthcoming). Her nonfiction manuscript Listen, we all bleed was named a finalist and awarded an honorable mention in the Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize Competition, and her story “Coconut Octopus” took first prize in the Eyelands International Flash Fiction Competition. In addition to her regular column at Manqué Magazine, she has published in Entropy, Waccamaw, The Spectacle, The Island Review, Quail Bell, The Deck Hand, and several other venues.