[1] Her background in mathematics comes across in her poetry, not as a subject, but in the careful formulation of words to white space and precision.
[6] Wong has received various other awards for her fiction and poetry including the 2002 Robert Burns Fellowship at the University of Otago,[7] a Reader's Digest - New Zealand Society of Authors Fellowship at the Stout Research Centre and a NZ Founders Society Research Award.
She has been a finalist in several poetry competitions and received grants from Creative NZ and the Willi Fels Memorial Trust.
Festival in Dunedin, as well as a speaker for the Stout Research Centre Chinese New Zealand Seminar Series.
In 2001 together with Linzy Forbes, she received a Porirua City Council Civic Honour Award for co-founding and running Poetry Cafe.