Marie Wenya Burns

Marie Wenya Burns is a Heartland Journalism Fellowship recipient and resident of St. Louis’s Bevo Mill neighborhood who works for the St. Louis County Library. She was a Sparks Fellow at Park & Fine Literary and Media in New York and an editorial assistant at Notre Dame Review. Her writing explores the intersections of history and fiction genres in Asian American communities, forming a novel-in-progress she hopes to complete during her fellowship.

Posts by Marie Wenya Burns

Personal Essays

The Strangeness in Us

I remember the crack of a gunshot in the 2018 debut of Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s two-part An American Soldier. I remember the operatic death, the performance of it, the abruptness of it, the sonorous belting, the tall wooden structure on stage right, and the tenor on top of it, playing Danny Chen, […]