Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet.
Life and education[edit]
Vang was born in Fresno, California. Vang's parents resettled in the United States in 1981 as Hmong refugees fleeing Laos.
She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in English, and from Columbia University with an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry.[1]
Her book, Afterland, won the 2016 Walt Whitman Award selected by Carolyn Forche.[2] Afterland was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2017, as well as a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Vang is a "finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry."[3]
Works[edit]
- Afterland: poems Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2017. ISBN 9781555977702, OCLC 947147147[4][5][6][7]*
- Yellow Rain: Poems[3][8]
Awards and honors[edit]
- Walt Whitman Award, 2016.
- National Book Award Finalist, 2017.[9]
- Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2017.[10]
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist for Afterland (2018).[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "#RedefineAtoZ: Mai Der Vang, a Poet Who Is Embracing the Surprises". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ "Mai Der Vang Wins Walt Whitman Award | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ a b "From History to Poetry: Mai Der Vang Explores the Archival Record in Her Celebrated Volume "Yellow Rain" | National Security Archive". nsarchive.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
- ^ Chiasson, Dan (2017-05-08). "Mai Der Vang's and Airea D. Matthews's Striking Débuts". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ "Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ "Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang". The Rumpus.net. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ "Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang - Center for the Study of Women". Center for the Study of Women. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ Vang, Mai Der (2021). Yellow rain poems. ISBN 978-1-64445-065-9. OCLC 1319436953.
- ^ "2017 National Book Award Longlist". National Book Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ "Mai Der Vang's Lannan Literary Fellowship Page". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ "2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner and Finalists". Claremont Graduate University. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
External links[edit]
- Official website
- From History to Poetry: Mai Der Vang Explores the Archival Record in Her Celebrated Volume "Yellow Rain
- https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/mai-der-vang
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/91680/after-all-have-gone
- https://fairytalereview.com/2017/06/27/create-rupture-mai-der-vang/
Categories:
- 1981 births
- Living people
- UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women poets
- Writers from Fresno, California
- Poets from California
- American people of Hmong descent
- American writers of Hmong descent
- American poets of Asian descent