Mia Tong

Mia Tong is the 2024 Porter Square Books Writer in Residence. She is a fiction writer of YA and immigrant, diasporic fiction. She is a recent master's graduate in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University and alumna of Yale Writers' Workshop. Her stories appear in The South Shore Review, Bright Flash Literary Review, Bending Genres, and elsewhere and her work was selected for fellowship and residency support from the Key West Literary Seminar and Storyknife Writers Retreat. She is a 2025 fellow of the Jack Straw Cultural Center, the Pacific Northwest’s only non-profit multidisciplinary audio arts center. When not writing or reading, Mia tries her hand at ikebana, waters her plants at the last minute, and explores the world, starting with her beloved Camberville.