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Ruoyu Wang ✷ 王若雨
is a writer from Seattle who unconditionally supports Palestinian resistance and liberation.A National YoungArts Winner in Writing, their poems appear in Sine Theta Magazine, COUNTERCLOCK, and The Shore, among others. They are the Founding Director of the SUNHOUSE Summer Writing Mentorship, and currently they are an intern at Sundress Publications and The Poetry Society of New York.Ruoyu loves live music and a good postcard. They especially love Hanif Abdurraqib when he says to "tell a friend that you're in love with them tonight."
say hi ✷ maggieruoyuwang [at] gmail [dot] comthis way to ✷ the SUNHOUSE....
selected poems ✷
2024 & prior"For What It's Worth" - Capilano Review (in print here)"Congratulations" - Rattle"Entropy" - Eunoia Review"I Hoard Six Cans of LaCroix Into My Bag After Watching You Drink One" & "New Year's Resolutions" - Sine Theta Magazine (in print here)"Sunday News" - COUNTERCLOCK Journal"Theories of Light" - The Shore
✦ Fiction coming soon...!
interviews ✷ for SUNHOUSE
✷ With DeeSoul Carson, Aiden Heung, Anoushka Kumar, Kyla Guimaraes, Ran Zhao, Ber Anena, & more...
A few of my favorites:"Killing the Afternoon" with Kyla Guimaraes"To Be Honest About the Worlds We Occupy" with DeeSoul Carson"Coloring a Shorthand to Beauty" with Ran Zhao"Gratitude for my Phenomenology" with Gaia Saravan"Ribbons of Physicality" with Nain Christopherson"Go Ahead, Become the Becoming" with Aiden Heung
✷ honors
Finalist, Tenth Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest 2025Winner in Poetry, National YoungArts Competition 2025Semifinalist, Virginia B. Ball Creative Writing Scholarship Competition 2024Winner, Rattle Young Poets Anthology 2024Commended, The Adroit Prize for Poetry 2023
✷ what i'm reading,,
prose...
"Portrait of an ape" & "The Trip" by Jiaqi Kang"Tunnels" by Yasmin Adele Majeed"We Love Deena" by Alice Sola Kim"Vigilantes" by Sophia Marusic"All This Want and I Can't Get None" by T Clark"Brooklyn Bridge" by Grace Shuyi Liew"The Five-Year Plan" by Steven Duong"This Is Not a Story About Her" by Kwame Opoku-Duku"Zeroes:Ones" by Cleo QianThe opening passage from Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar"Iphigenia" by Kelly X. Hui"Between the Meat World and the Real World" by Angie Sijun Lou"To Molt and to Love You" by Muriel Leung"The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure" by Solmaz Sharif
poetry...
"God is Always Seventeen" by Larry Levis"Ars Poetica as Things I Wanted to Tell You"
& "In a Dream I Watch UFC With You" by Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong"Heaven" by Hua Xi"Yolk" by Uyen Phuong Dang"Aphelion" by Mackenzie Duan"Soot" by Kaveh Akbar"The False Beloveds with One Exception (or, Repetition Compulsion)" by Megan Fernandes, particularly "Brooklyn Sonnet""Honeymoon" by Hala Alyan"Wake II" by Nike Onwu"Bad Nostalgia" & "Stage Kiss" by Maria Gray"Song" & "Diction" by Yi Wei"Ghazal for my Father" by Jasmine Khaliq"Bad Debt" & "Bad classics" by Talin Tahajian"On Becoming Memory" by N.S. Ahmed"The First Water is the Body" & "From the Desire Field" by Natalie Diaz"Perihelion: A History of Touch" by Franny Choi@renny.reviews on Instagram, poems by Renny GongExcerpt from "Search Engine" by Ty Raso"Salvage" & "The Listening Section" by Hedgie Choi"Detail of the Woods" by Richard Siken"To the Angelbeast" by Eduardo C. Corral"my father my father" (Franz Wright and James Wright) compiled together by Lily Wang on SubstackTwo Poems by Steven Duong"Something I Wrote Down" & "I Drop a White Pill in My Sink" by A.D. Lauren Abunassar"a bowl of blackberries" by Ali Choudharyfrom "Crown for What Has Kept Me" by DeeSoul Carson"Sad Girl Sonnet #2" & "Sad Girl Sonnet #19" by Diannely Antigua"at the end" by Christian Yeo Xuan"Alpenglow" by Stephanie Chang"I Have Not Written a Poem in Months" by Laetitia Keok"Persistence of Vision with Gwendolyn Brooks" by Solmaz Sharif"The Institution", "Postcard to Kabul", & "Providence" by Aria Aber"December" by Michael Miller"Essay on ____" by e.jin o'malley
