born 1956 San Francisco, California
Father, a laborer
mother, a seamstress
University of California at Berkeley, BA
Columbia University, MFA
married and divorced Mark Coovelis, a writer
wrote her first stories in Chinese at the Cumberland Presbyterian Chinese School
lives in Brooklyn
Fae Myenne Ng, Voices from the Gaps
Fae Myenne Ng interviewed by Don Swaim at Wired for Books