Welcome! Thank you for visiting my Web site. Here you can get "the inside scoop" on each of my books, and hear me read my stories and poems. You can learn about my approach to poetry – how I use props to make it fun – and find out about my school visits and performances. Enjoy!

"There's an enticing freshness, freedom, and candor about Janet Wong's poems... Janet Wong is clearly a writer who pushes against the boundaries of craft and ideology. She is a student of poetry who experiments and refines techniques she learned from her formidable mentor, Myra Cohn Livingston... A highly regarded mentor herself, she shares her craft with a missionary's zeal by engaging children in poetry in personally meaningful ways. We are richly rewarded whenever we wind our way through her imaginative poetic landscape."
—Janet Hill and Anthony Manna, The New Advocate
  

...dreams grow wild
Like dandelion weeds,
feathery heads alive with seeds

and these fine seeds,
about to sprout,
race the day
to find their place
in a welcome mind...

– from Night Garden: Poems from the World of Dreams

Watch a video of Janet at the White House.

Janet Wong has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey show.