A. Ng Pavel (吳慧靈) is a writer, artist, critic, and graphic designer from Chicago, IL. They are the founder of the Chicago Asian Writers Workshop, which offers free creative writing classes for Asian writers in the Midwest.
In 2023, they were a Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow and a StoryBoard Reading Fellow, and in 2024, an alumnus of the Tin House Summer Workshop. In 2025, they received their MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction from the University of Mississippi.
Based in Berlin, they are currently at work on a short story collection and a novel.
In their past artistic lives, they were part of the experimental band The Concept of Nature, a DJ for WHPK.fm, a filmmaker, and a fiber artist.
Contact: angpavel (@) proton (.) me
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