Hi, this is Kathy Wang. Thank you for reading my work!
I’m a Brown University graduate with an honors degree in English (nonfiction track). Currently, I’m a master’s student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, with a specialization in magazine and a concentration in data journalism.
Most recently, I was a content and editorial intern at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, where I primarily worked for their Magazine. Before that, I worked at two NPR member stations, Connecticut Public Radio (WNPR) and WGBH in Boston, as a radio talk show intern and reporter. In college, I was a senior editor on the 134th editorial board of The Brown Daily Herald, Brown’s independent student-run daily newspaper. My breaking coverage of campus reactions to the November 2023 Vermont shooting won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Mark of Excellence national breaking news award in 2023.
I’m also a creative nonfiction writer, mostly on themes of displacement, family/kinship, language and intimacy. I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on maternal family history during the Cultural Revolution in Beijing (please email for a copy). My pieces on childhood, growth and family won Brown’s most prestigious CNF award in 2024 and were shortlisted again in 2025.
When I’m not writing or reporting, you can find me in the kitchen, at cafes and speakeasies, or dreaming about the days when I’ll get a puppy.
Selected Works by Kathy Wang 