Discipline: Literature – translation

Ting Wang

Discipline: Literature – translation
Region: Silver Spring, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 2024

Ting Wang is a literary translator based in the Washington metropolitan area. She is the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center / Henry Luce Foundation Chinese Poetry & Translation Fellowship and grants from the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County in Maryland.

Her translations from Chinese have appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, World Literature Today Online, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Communication at Northwestern University.

While at MacDowell, Wang worked towards the completion of her translation of both a collection of lyric essays by Taiwanese poet and essayist Chen Li and a collection of short stories by Chinese writer Su Tong. Excerpts from her translation of the two projects have appeared in Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, Asymptote, and elsewhere.

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Mansfield

Ting Wang worked in the Mansfield studio.

The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…

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