Wendy Law Yone (Wong Fellow 2002) grew up in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) where her father was editor and publisher of the Rangoon Nation, a liberal English language daily.  In Rangoon, she gained a Diploma in German Language and Literature at the Institute of Foreign Languages. She began writing after a career in music was derailed by the politically-motivated arrest and detention of her father. After escaping from Burma in the late 1960s to join her first husband, journalist Sterling Seagrave, she immigrated to the United States in 1973 and settled in Washington D.C. to raise her family. She graduated in Modern Languages & Comparative Literature from Edkerd College, Florida in 1975, and has worked as a freelance journalist and book reviewer for the Washington Post and.  She has published two novels, The Coffin Tree and Irrawaddy Tango as well as short stories.   She now is currently completing her third novel.

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Read Law Yone's article for Time Magazine on returning to Burma.

An interview with Law Yone in MELUS Magazine.