Nancy grew up in Shanghai and near Detroit. Her debut poetry collection, Favorite Daughter, won the Write Bloody Press Book Prize and was published in 2017. Her poetry, plays, and prose are published by The Offing, poets.org, Asian American Writer's Workshop's The Margins, film distribution company A24, and others. She is the recipient of an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize and a James F. Parker Poetry Award. Her other work has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets, and Pushcart Prizes. In addition, Nancy is a Voices/VONA, Watering Hole, Tin House, and Pink Door fellow.
Her novel-in-progress, an exploration of queer storytelling within a folkloric framework, was a finalist for the UK's Peters-Fraser-Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize, and the winner of an NYU Global Research Initiative Fellowship in Shanghai, as well as a VelvetPark Residency in Brooklyn and a ChaNorth Residency in Pine Plains, NY. In 2022 she was the recipient of a Donald Justice Fiction Scholarship at Sewanee Writer's Conference. She has read and taught workshops all over the globe, alongside universities, literature conferences, and nonprofits. She has a poetry MFA from NYU. She works at a cemetery in Brooklyn.
Her novel-in-progress, an exploration of queer storytelling within a folkloric framework, was a finalist for the UK's Peters-Fraser-Dunlop Queer Fiction Prize, and the winner of an NYU Global Research Initiative Fellowship in Shanghai, as well as a VelvetPark Residency in Brooklyn and a ChaNorth Residency in Pine Plains, NY. In 2022 she was the recipient of a Donald Justice Fiction Scholarship at Sewanee Writer's Conference. She has read and taught workshops all over the globe, alongside universities, literature conferences, and nonprofits. She has a poetry MFA from NYU. She works at a cemetery in Brooklyn.
