NAME OF POET: Janet S.Wong


BORN:on September 30, 1962

ABOUT HIS/HER LIFE: Janet S. Wong was born in Los Angles, but she grew up in California. She spent her junior year in France, studying art history at the Universite de Bordeaux. When she returned from France, Janet founded the UCLA Immigrant Children's Art Project, a program focused on teaching refugee children to express them through art.





ABOUT HIS/HER WORK:
UCLA, summa cum laude, with a B.A. in History and College Honors, Janet then obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a director of the Yale Law and Technology Association and worked for New Haven Legal Aid.