Sally Wen Mao (born in Wuhan, China) is an American poet. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize.[1]
Life edit
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]
Works edit
- Mad Honey Symposium Alice James Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1938584060
- Oculus, Graywolf Press, 2019. ISBN 9781555978259, OCLC 1036096587
- The Kingdom of Surfaces, Graywolf Press, 2023. ISBN 9781644452370, OCLC 1345220012
References edit
- ^ "Sally Wen Mao on Finding the Necessary Tools to Write Poems". thecreativeindependent.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Sally Wen Mao". www.quarterlywest.utah.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ Jacobson, Aileen (2013-11-01). "In Whitman's Backyard, a Salute to Poetry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Ezra Update: A honey badger of a poet". ezramagazine.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "A Poem by Sally Wen Mao".
- ^ "Sally Wen Mao in Poetry Foundation". 16 January 2023.
- ^ "Three Poems by Sally Wen Mao - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "DIAGRAM :: Sally Wen Mao". thediagram.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "TWO POEMS by Sally Wen Mao". Four Way Review. 2015-10-25. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ ""The White-Haired Girl" by Sally Wen Mao | Indiana Review". indianareview.org. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "A Poem by Sally Wen Mao". www.kenyonreview.org. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "The Missouri Review » Sally Wen Mao". www.missourireview.com. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Sally Wen Mao". MUZZLE MAGAZINE. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Four poems by Sally Wen Mao | Superstition Review". superstitionreview.asu.edu. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Sally Wen Mao". Washington Square Review. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ Chiasson, Dan (14 January 2019). "Sally Wen Mao Writes Visionary Poems for a Blinkered World". The New Yorker.
- ^ "New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellows 2016-2017".
- ^ "PEN/Faulkner & Hill Center Present: Poet Sally Wen Mao – Hill Center DC". www.hillcenterdc.org. Retrieved 2018-04-10.
- ^ "Fellows". Kundiman. Retrieved 2018-05-27.
External links edit
- abrink; abrink; dimitrov (2017-01-03). "Resurrection". Resurrection.
- "41.2 Feature: An Interview with Sally Wen Mao". BWR. 2015-03-02.
- Gupta, Anika (2017-08-24). "At the Smithsonian's First Asian-American Lit Fest, Writers Share Falooda, Politics and Poetry". Smithsonian.
- Delgado, Yohanca (2018-01-23). "An Interview with Sally Wen Mao". Café Américain – An online home for the American University Creative Writing MFA community.