Seth Wang is a writer whose fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, and Passages North. Seth has an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where they were the Senior Fellow in Fiction, and was a 2023-2024 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. They are working on a novel.
💅 s t o r i e s 💅
“Mirror for Princes (a perfume ad)” - 2022, Gulf Coast
published in the summer/fall 2022 issue
finalist for the BOMB Magazine 2021 Fiction Contest
“Hayhook (1989)” - 2022, Passages North
published online
“The Cacophobe” - 2021, Ploughshares
first published in the spring 2021 issue, guest-edited by Laura van den Berg
republished in Catapult’s Best Debut Short Stories 2022
🤡 p r e s s 🤡
Justin Isis Recommends - Neo-Decadence: A Wardrobe Tour on X-R-A-Y - August 2024
Interview with Debutiful - September 2022
✂️e d i t o r i a l s e r v i c e s✂️
Seth is available for freelance editorial work, specializing in fiction manuscripts, query letters, applications (fellowships, residencies, MFA programs, PhD programs, etc.), literary criticism, personal essays, and journalism. Those who’ve undergone Seth’s editorial process have been accepted and published by institutions of prestige, including Ivies, Ivy-equivalents, and certain Reviews of Books. Under their deadname, Seth boasts bylines at publications which include Vanity Fair, Dazed, i-D, and various Condé Nast and Hearst verticals. These are available upon request. Email them for a quote.
💌 c o n t a c t 💌
send love and/or hate mail to sxthwxng [at] gmail.com
send money to venmo: @SWang156
for more official inquiries and business deals, please contact Seth’s agent, Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary:
kent [at] neonliterary.com