COMING OCTOBER 2027
The Hierarchy of Soup
Environmental engineer and winner of the 2026 Aurora Polaris Award Amber Wong’s new book explores the author’s experiences as a fourth-generation Chinese American through the cultural themes of scarcity and abundance, comfort and unfamiliarity.
Amber Wong is a writer and environmental engineer in Seattle who writes about culture, identity, and her firsthand knowledge about risks posed by hazardous waste sites.
Her personal narratives explore her fourth-generation American life through the cultural themes of scarcity and abundance, comfort and unfamiliarity exploring how the statics of culture – ethnicity, gender, even one’s profession – bend the dynamics of modern-day America.
I tell stories. Stories from my Boston childhood. Stories from my California youth. American stories about work, life, and family. Stories not much different from yours, but flavored with hoi sin, ho yow, and in the distant past, shark fin. Like I said, American stories.
- – Amber Wong, Author
Recent Publications
CRAFT, September 3, 2026, “Near Erasure,” Editors’ Choice, 2026 CRAFT Award for Excellence
Under the Gum Tree, Winter 2026, “Bad Chinese Daughters”
The Plentitudes, The Library, Late Fall 2025/Issue No. 20, “Alpha Rowing”
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