Ally Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. A Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee, their work has appeared in The Rumpus, Muzzle Magazine, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Ally has received fellowships & support from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Artist Trust. Learn more at allysonang.com.

"There is a certain rich earnestness and ardor in these poems that a reader cannot help but feel stirred and breathless at times."
—Sophie Bebeau, Bear Review

"This debut does not begin this writer's career modestly or on a small scale. Like their Seattle contemporaries, Ang blends humor and absurdity with grief and rage, and as a writer of color, tells on the systems and institutions functioning to repress and kill queer people of color. Ang seeks hope and freedom in these pages and, also like Sycamore's novel, reaches into their community for the fuel they need to keep going."
—Lit Review Revue - The Stranger

Let the Moon Wobble is the debut poetry collection from Ally Ang, an Asian, Queer writer. Ang’s poems gleam with queer pleasure and imagine a future where the freaks and bottom-feeders take center stage. The title comes from the opening line of the first poem, drawing on the lunar phenomenon of ‘moon wobble’ to evoke a queerness that is messy, off-kilter, and ungovernable. In these poems, Ang embraces the wildness of both nature and self, balancing irreverent joy with sharp critiques of pinkwashing and rainbow capitalism.
—Platform

"Ally Ang’s poems are made of houseplants and melatonin, leather and bloodstains, fresh fruit and rumpled bedsheets. They assert queer self-creation on the page in a poetic voice that is at once expansive and precise. Let the Moon Wobble is a striking, impressive first collection."
—Skylar Miklus, Electric Literature

“Ally Ang traverses capitalism’s violent landscapes in search of xeranthemums and blackberries. But this is more than a hunt for pretty flowers and tasty fruit. It’s a lifesaving quest to reclaim the stinky, the freaky, and the wild as allies. Let the Moon Wobble is a collection of invitations to forbidden, overlapping territories: pleasure and disgust, engagement and hopelessness, audacity and fear. With unapologetic candor and humor, Ang’s poems carry us toward hardwon intimacy. These are poems as queer fruit: generous, spikey, ravenous, quenching.”
—Shira Erlichman, author of Odes to Lithium