Sally Wen Mao (born in Wuhan, China) is an American poet. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize. [1]
Sally Wen Mao (born in Wuhan, China) is an American poet. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize. [1]
She grew up in Boston and the Bay Area. [2] She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and Cornell University, with an MFA. [3] [4]
Her work has appeared in A Public Space, [5] Poetry Magazine, [6] Bomb, [7] Diagram, [8] Four Way Review, [9] Indiana Review, [10] Kenyon Review, [11] Missouri Review, [12] Muzzle, [13] Superstitution, [14] and Washington Square Review. [15] Her first book of poems, Mad Honey Symposium, was published by Alice James Books in 2014, and her second book, Oculus, was published by Graywolf Press in 2019. Oculus has been reviewed by The New Yorker . [16]
From 2016 to 2017, she was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at The New York Public Library. [17]
From 2017 to 2018, she was Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University. [18]
Catherine Barnett is an American poet and educator. She is the author of Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space ; Human Hours, winner of the Believer Book Award; The Game of Boxes, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award. Her honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. She has published widely in journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, Harper's, The Nation, Pleiades, Poetry, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Washington Post. Her poetry was featured in The Best American Poetry 2016, edited by Edward Hirsch. Barnett teaches in the graduate and undergraduate writing programs at New York University. She has also taught in the MFA Program at Hunter College, Princeton University, The New School, and Barnard College. She also works as an independent editor. She received her B.A. from Princeton University and an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.,
Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 2011 collection Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.
Ander Monson is an American novelist, poet, and nonfiction writer.
Leslie Adrienne Miller is the author of five collections of poems.
Stephanie Burt is a literary critic and poet who is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. The New York Times has called her "one of the most influential poetry critics of [her] generation". Burt grew up around Washington, D.C. She has published various collections of poetry and a large amount of literary criticism and research. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,The New York Times Book Review, The London Review of Books, and other publications.
Katie Ford is an American poet, essayist, and professor.
Mark Wunderlich, is an American poet. He was born in Winona, Minnesota, and grew up in a rural setting near the town of Fountain City, Wisconsin. He attended Concordia College's Institute for German Studies before transferring to the University of Wisconsin, where he studied English and German literature. After moving to New York City he attended Columbia University, where he received an MFA degree.
Kundiman is a nonprofit organization dedicated to writers and readers of Asian American literature. Among its services are readings, workshops, mentorship programs, writing intensives, as well as a poetry prize and an annual writing retreat, the Kundiman Retreat.
Hieu Minh Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American poet based in Minneapolis. A graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program, his writing has appeared in PBS NewsHour, POETRY magazine, BuzzFeed, Poetry London, Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Muzzle Magazine, The Paris-American, the Indiana Review, and more. He identifies as queer.
Jennifer Chang is an Asian American poet and scholar.
Solmaz Sharif is an Iranian-American poet. Her debut poetry collection, Look, was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at UC Berkeley.
Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet.
Janine Joseph is a Filipino-American poet and author.
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer.
Donika Kelly is an American poet and academic, who is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing. She is the author of the chapbook Aviarium, published with fivehundred places in 2017, and the full-length collections Bestiary and The Renunciations.
Matthew Olzmann is a poet, author, and essayist.
Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and professor. In 2015, she published Year Zero, a poetry chapbook selected by Marilyn Chin for the 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, and in 2020, she released the poetry collection A Nail the Evening Hangs On with Copper Canyon Press. Themes of her work include myth-making, Cambodian history, intergenerational trauma, and family history.
The Kingdom of Surfaces is a 2023 poetry collection by American poet Sally Wen Mao, published by Graywolf Press. Mao's third poetry collection, it was a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award.
Oculus is a 2019 poetry collection by Sally Wen Mao, published by Graywolf Press. Mao's second poetry collection, it was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.
Shelley Wong is an American poet. In 2022, she released her debut poetry collection, As She Appears, after winning the YesYes Books Pamet River Prize in 2019, and her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review, the New England Review, and other publications. Her poetry has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Fire Island Artist Residency, the San Francisco Arts Commission, among others.
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