Seth Wang is a PEN/Dau-winning 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, was a 2023-2024 Writing Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and is a forthcoming resident at Yaddo (spring 2027). They are currently seeking new representation for their debut novel, The Little Knife.

Read Seth’s Substack: baddiemir nabokov.

💅 p u b l i c a t i o n s 💅

“this is not mermaid crudo” - 2027, Decadent Stories for Decadent Times, Rachilde & Co. Books

“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

• winner of the 2022 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

• 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 💌

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