Amidst the never-ending pursuit to do more, do it faster, make it bigger, do it better, one tiny thing can be all you need to get to something wilder and freer.
A poem is a tiny thing.
Get in touch— ana@wondermachine.studio
Ana Wang is a writer whose work spans poetry, copywriting, art, strategy, education, and curation.
As a writer who studied design formally, worked in fast-growth industries, and, other than a few poems published in children’s magazines, got her start writing on the internet, Ana’s work is informed by her enthusiasm for the experience of how people read and an intuitive pulse on language that cuts deep and fast.
While earning a bachelor's degree in fashion design, Ana started a blog about innovation and technology in the fashion industry and, garnering a small audience, was hired to write for emerging startups while still a fashion student. After graduating, she worked stints in lingerie, weddings, and the baby and toy industry, then spent over a decade on the business, operations, and content side of brand-building before becoming a full-time independent creative and commercial writer in 2021.
Ana's work has been featured in Vogue, The Huffington Post, WGSN, she was a Top Writer on Medium in 2017, her poem selected in literary gallery TheVerseVerse's first community anthology, and her fiction shortlisted for World of Women's Lore Contest.
Inspired by her own experiences with the power of friction in language to disrupt, connect, rewire, and expand, Ana frequently mixes genres and conventions. She has previously written blogs, essays, and technical content to explore challenges from tackling sustainability in the fashion industry to diversity in STEM education and more recently, the biggest challenge of today, threatening our connection to the real world: the rise of the human machine.
Today, Ana's focus is on expanding the language, exchange, and practice of poetry (because "people don't read" and a poem barely counts) by exploring its connections and possibilities within the worlds of entertainment, art, and advertising.
ACCOLADES—
2023: Selected poet, TheVerseVerse community anthology
2022: Poem shortlisted for the World of Women Lore Contest
2021: ilovecreatives Internet Gems, Editorial category
2018: “Pajamas, Rom-Coms, and Your Girls: All You Really Need for Galentine’s Day”, product feature in Vogue
2018: Garmentory Trending Product of the Day
2017: Enactus Student Entrepreneur National Competition, Industry Judge on behalf of Shopify
2017: Medium Top Writer, Love and Relationships category
2012: Huffington Post, fashion and sustainability contributor
2012: Top Conscious Fashion Brands of 2012, Ecosalon
2011: “Wang Works Minimalist Flair”, Georgia Straight Style press feature
2010: 2010 Olympics, Fashion Design Exhibitor
Language for brands
Poetic isn’t the opposite of strategic, and language doesn’t have to be devoid of texture to be deeply engaging and powerful.
I’ve been writing multichannel campaigns, websites, and educational content for billion dollar brands and brand new startups for over a decade. I’ve sold out (eight figures+ worth) and I’ve dialled in.
Writing is world-building, style is essential, and your best bet as a brand is to make people feel things. Through copywriting and consulting services as well as poetry, nonfiction, and fiction commissions, I help brands become beloved brands and not just commodities.
Poetry for everyone
Poetry is language in its most potent package. And it has so much power to soften, sharpen, spark, and sear.
My poems play with ideas about perception, transformation, independence, and wonder, a sweet spot between the familiar and uncomfortable, the beautiful and terrifying. I also enjoy experimenting with multimedia ways to experience poetry. After all, poetry is forever but constantly changing—and we’re shaping it right now.
Brand new to poetry? I create resources to help people get into poetry for the very first time, from my newsletter, Left On Red, to my free series Poetry Camp, and many more resources to come.
TINY THINGS
A poem. Ruby reds. MVPs (*in tech, not sports). I love small packages with a lot to say, sometimes pretty and sometimes messy—and always essential to the plot.
Who we are is the sum of our attention, our environments, and our choices. The seed of a thought, feeling, or entire universe can grow from a single touch point, that one thing that started it all—or takes us all the way home.
I'm currently exploring how big bold ideas spread through tiny things in the most physical, sensorial sense, bringing words off screen and off pages, into our hands and spaces.