Albert Abdul-Barr Wang is an indigenous Taiwanese-American Los Angeles-based Oulipo-influenced bard and experimental writer. He is a MFA candidate in creative writing (fiction) at the California Institute of the Arts/CalArts (2028). Also he received a MFA in studio art from the ArtCenter College of Design (2025), a BFA in Photography & Digital Imaging at the University of Utah (2023), and a BA in Creative Writing/English Literature at Vanderbilt University (1997).

Wang's artworks, prose, and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Waterstoning Journal, The Goby Review, TIMBER, The Adroit Journal, New Delta Review (NDR), BRINK, Clockwise Cat, Ekphrastic Review, The Hooghly Review, Brooklyn to Gangnam, and fractured lit. His piece "Bryan Betancur, Insider #2160" was longlisted for The Masters Review's 2025 Summer Short Story Award for New Writers judged by Jennine Capó Crucet. He is currently the literary editor-in-chief at Brooklyn to Gangnam and a prose reader for Quarterly West. You can find him at www.albertabdulbarrwang.art and on Instagram at @albertabdulbarrwang.

Some of his adjacent hobbies include the following endeavours: watching movies particularly at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown L.A.; naps; reading and public libraries; drinking coffee and tea; attending art museums and galleries; video games, particularly Star Wars: the Old Republic and Fallout 76; late Bronze Age archeology; classical Greek and Roman studies; cooking (or culinary chemistry as he likes to put it); spending time with his girlfriend; listening to music, particularly 1980's-1990's hip hop and classical and jazz; travel or wandering like a flâneur; and board games like chess and draughts.