Stephanie Wong writes, weaves, sews, and spins in Chicago, IL. In 2025, she received a PhD in Latin American History from Brown University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Eater, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others; she is presently at work on a memoir about suburban Asian America.
Stephanie Wong
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Writing on Public Books
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England’s leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
“We Are Not Meant to Be Girls Alone in This World”: A Conversation with Gina María Balibrera
“It’s such a heavy and troubling history, but not entirely dismal. Humans laugh all the time.”
“No One Is There Who Has Somewhere Better to Be”: Talking Migration with Levi Vonk
“The asylum system is a rejection of anything that disrupts American universalism. It’s kicking people out who offer an alternative view of the world.”
Finding Black People in Antiquity: Talking the Future of Classics with Sarah Derbew
“It feels insensitive or dishonest to not acknowledge the ways in which our work is a part of a greater narrative.”
Finding Nowhere
What does the ancient world look like beyond Greece and Rome? Could imagining a collective human future start with seeing the past anew?
