Wendy Wan-Long Shang is an author of children's books.
Shang grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia. Her parents were Chinese immigrants to the United States. She received an undergraduate degree from and attended law school at the University of Virginia. She worked for the American Bar Association for five years.[1]
Her debut novel, The Great Wall of Lucy Wu (Scholastic, 2010), received the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.[1]
Shang's book Not Your All-American Girl (Scholastic, 2020) is a companion novel to This Is Just a Test (2017). Both novels were co-written with Madelyn Rosenberg.[2]
She wrote the first Chinese-American title character in the American Girl Company's annual Girl of the Year series.[3]
As of 2022, Shang lives in Falls Church, Virginia.[1]