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, which is now in its fourth consecutive year.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
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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
Winner, Five College Prose and Poetry Prize 2026Finalist, Tenth Annual Narrative Magazine 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 !
poetry...
"Desire Path" by Laetitia Keok"The Honest Wife" & "Truth" by Hala Alyan"Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness" by Franny Choi"A Necessary Death in Broad Daylight" by Diana Khoi Nguyen"Short Talks" by Anne Carson"Winter Stars" by Larry Levis"River Crossing Onto the Open Moore" by Bidhya Limbu"T4T" by Oliver Baez Bendorf"Stone Butch Sonnet" by Aishvarya Arora"Guerilla's Nocturne" by Kéchi Nne Nomu"A Theory of Milkweed" by Jarrett Moseley"Every Poet Has A Love Affair With A Bridge" by Jarrett Moseley"Nonduality" by Acie Clark"Partial Eclipse" by Maria Gray"Saint Paul" by Hieu Minh Nguyen"Poem for Haruko" by June Jordan"I'm Smarter than This Feeling, but Am I?" by Megan Fernandes"Semiotics" by Megan Fernandes"Annunciation, Part III" by Talin Tahajian"I Can't See My Insides" by Patrycja Humienik"voractious" by Patrycja Humienik"On Self-Deceit" by Patrycja Humienik"Force Visibility" by Solmaz Sharif"The Master's House" by Solmaz Sharif"Self Portrait as Patron Saint of Dayquil" by Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong"Ars Poetica (When I keep learning you, something breaks)" by Christian Yeo Xuan"The 17-Year-Old & the Gay Bar" by Danez Smith"Heaven" by Hua Xi"My Teacher Again" by Natalie Shapero"The Golden Shovel" by Terrance Hayes"Bad Nostalgia" & "Stage Kiss" by Maria Gray"Japanese Denim" by Mackenzie Duan"Song" by Yi Wei"Diction" by Yi Wei"'There ain't no preachers/b*tches in this park no more!'" by DeeSoul Carson"Bad Debt" & "Bad classics" by Talin Tahajian"On Becoming Memory" by N.S. Ahmed"Goatsong" by Leila ChattiExcerpt from "Search Engine" by Ty Raso"To the Angelbeast" by Eduardo C. Corral"Sad Girl Sonnet #2" & "Sad Girl Sonnet #19" by Diannely Antigua"The Institution" by Aria Aber"Providence" by Aria Aber"Church" by Aria Aber"December" by Michael Miller"Essay on ____" by e.jin o'malley"Television" & "Capacity" by Daniel Liu"What Is the Measure" by Donika Kelly"Laura Palmer Graduates" by Amy Woolard"Furious Versions" By Li-Young Lee"Field" by Matthew Dickman"Intimacies, Received" by Taneum Bambrick
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"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
