Hi! I’m a journalist and writer based in Los Angeles. I was born in Jinan, China, raised in Minnesota, and went to school at UC Berkeley. A reported opinion piece I wrote about Asian-American women named after Connie Chung was the recipient of an ONA award for online commentary, an AAJA award for excellence in commentary, and was a finalist for the Poynter Journalism Prize (formerly ASNE Awards) for the Mike Royko Award for Commentary and Column Writing.
My debut book, Oh My Mother! A MEMOIR IN NINE ADVENTURES is with Viking Books, and available to purchase now. Some very nice people have said some very nice things about it!
“A sort of road trip through a complex mother-daughter relationship in nine essays, journalist Connie Wang’s collection is electric with warmth, humor, and intellect, as so well-captured in the book’s title. A literal translation of the closest Chinese expression to ‘Oh my God,’ Oh My Mother! is poised to be a glowing debut.”
—Elle
“Mother and daughter relationships are always tricky but this peripatetic pair has outdone all of us with this most excellent adventure written by my namesake, author Connie Wang.”
—Connie Chung
“Oh My Mother! could well be Oh My! It’s really Connie Wang’s journey, with her mother along for the ride, as mentor, antagonist, and instigator of all sorts of adventures and insights. It’s as much a journal of travails as travels, but Wang, a sharp, unsparing journalist, finds and shares lessons at every stop.”
—Ben Fong-Torres
Formerly, I was the executive editor at Refinery29 where I hosted and co-produced a Refinery29 documentary series called Style Out There that reported on fashion subcultures around the world. The second season won a Newswomen’s Club of NY Front Page Award in 2018. If you’d like, you can watch it on Amazon Prime and YouTube.
Photo by Chris Buck