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Ruoyu Wang ✷ 王若雨
is a writer based near Seattle. Their poems appear in Sine Theta Magazine, COUNTERCLOCK, and The Shore, and have been recognized by YoungArts, The Adroit Journal, Narrative Magazine, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Scholastic Arts & Writing, among others. Currently, they serve as an Executive Editor at The Dawn Review and the Program Director of the SUNHOUSE Summer Writing Mentorship, a 1-on-1 online creative writing program for teenagers.Ruoyu loves live music and vintage postcards from the 1900s. 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 ✷
"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
✦ Fiction coming soon...!
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
Finalist, Tenth Annual Narrative 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
a few of my all-time favorites, a few pieces that cut straight to my heart at the moment (last updated in april of '25)
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"Zeroes:Ones" by Cleo QianThe opening passage from Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar"Iphigenia" by Kelly X. Hui"One-Hundred Percent Humidity" by Michelle Lyn King"Individual Medley" by Naomi Shuyama-Gómez"Between the Meat World and the Real World" by Angie Sijun Lou"To Molt and to Love You" by Muriel Leung
poetry...
"Ars Poetica as Things I Wanted to Tell You" & "In a Dream I Watch UFC With You" by Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong"Origin Story" & "Ho Chi Minh City" by Steven Duong"The False Beloveds with One Exception (or, Repetition Compulsion)" by Megan Fernandes, particularly "Brooklyn Sonnet""Honeymoon" by Hala Alyan"Wake II" by Nike Onwu"Bad Nostalgia" & "Stage Kiss" by Maria Gray"Diction" by Yi Wei"Ghazal for my Father" by Jasmine Khaliq"Bad Debt" & "Bad classics" by Talin Tahajian"Neon Babylon" by Angie Sijun Lou"The Forest Interviews the Wanderer" by Donte Collins"Yolk" by Uyen Phuong Dang"On Becoming Memory" by N.S. Ahmed"The First Water is the Body" by Natalie Diaz"Perihelion: A History of Touch" by Franny Choi@renny.reviews on Instagram, poems by Renny Gong
