46: Cecily Wong, author of Diamond Head

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 9:30 a.m.

"There’s nothing that gets me more revved up to write fiction than to read amazing fiction." - Cecily Wong

Cecily Wong is the author of the novel Diamond Head, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, a recipient of an Elle Magazine Readers’ Prize, and voted a best debut of The Brooklyn Book Festival. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The LA Review of Books, SELF Magazine, Bustle, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Barnard College and lives in Brooklyn, where she is a writer at Atlas Obscura. 

 

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Connect with Cecily on Twitter @cecilyannwong

Cecily's book recommendation: The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker

 

Also mentioned in this episode:

Women Mean Business Luncheon

Twin Cities Book Festival

FBC Episode 39: Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me

 

 

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