Elaine Wang

Elaine Wang has been published in Auburn Avenue, Elastic Magazine, Memorious, Sunstar, Spires, cahoodaloodaling, Zero Ducats, the Lantern Review, FreezeRay and Front Porch (now Porter House Review). She was part of 92y’s #wordswelivein project, 7x7’s Exquisite Corpse (collaboration with Kenji Liu) and Unmargin's "Incantations." She is a Kundiman Fellow and 2014 and 2017 Pushcart Prize Nominee. Born and raised in Texas, she now resides in Los Angeles.

www.theelainewang.com, @theelainewrites

You'll Never Guess How To Make the Best Egg Ever!

It begins, like many things, with an egg. One hot and humid Taiwan summer day (is there any other kind?) my mother came back with a bunch of fried eggs she’d gotten from a street vendor, all in their individual unsealed plastic bags with a smash of sauce. “來吃早餐!” she called.