Daren Wang – Writer

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Daren Wang is a writer, public radio producer, and social entrepreneur. He co-founded the AJC-Decatur Book Festival in 2005 and served as its Executive Director until 2017. He produced Porches: The South & Her Writers, Between The Lines with Valerie Jackson, ArtVoice, and The Spoken Word for public radio. In 2005 he launched Verb: An Audioquarterly, which was named one of the best five new magazines of the year by Library Journal.

Daren published his novel The Hidden Light of Northern Fires with St. Martin’s Press in 2017.

Around the time of the publication, Gail O’Neill profiled Daren for Arts ATL.

His writing has appeared in Paste Magazine, Five Points Magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AJC Travel, The Saporta Report, ArtsATL, and others. These days he’s writing about designing an intentional life in Europe after the end of work.Follow along on Substack: