Sally Wen Mao Explained

Sally Wen Mao (born in Wuhan, China) is an American poet. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize.^[1]

Life

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]

Sally is a Kundiman fellow.^[19]

Works

• Mad Honey Symposium Alice James Books, 2014.
• Oculus, Graywolf Press, 2019.,
• The Kingdom of Surfaces, Graywolf Press, 2023.,

External links

• Web site: abrink . abrink . dimitrov . Resurrection . Resurrection . 2017-01-03 .
• Web site: 41.2 Feature: An Interview with Sally Wen Mao. 2015-03-02. BWR .
• Web site: At the Smithsonian's First Asian-American Lit Fest, Writers Share Falooda, Politics and Poetry. Gupta. Anika. 2017-08-24. Smithsonian .
• Web site: An Interview with Sally Wen Mao. Delgado. Yohanca. 2018-01-23. Café Américain – An online home for the American University Creative Writing MFA community .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sally Wen Mao on Finding the Necessary Tools to Write Poems. thecreativeindependent.com. en-US. 2018-04-10.
2. Web site: Sally Wen Mao. www.quarterlywest.utah.edu. 2018-04-10.
3. News: In Whitman's Backyard, a Salute to Poetry. Jacobson. Aileen. 2013-11-01. The New York Times. 2018-04-10. en-US. 0362-4331.
4. Web site: Ezra Update: A honey badger of a poet. ezramagazine.cornell.edu. 2018-04-10.
5. Web site: A Poem by Sally Wen Mao.
6. Web site: Sally Wen Mao in Poetry Foundation. 16 January 2023 .
7. Web site: Three Poems by Sally Wen Mao - BOMB Magazine. bombmagazine.org. 2018-04-10.
8. Web site: DIAGRAM :: Sally Wen Mao. thediagram.com. 2018-04-10.
9. News: TWO POEMS by Sally Wen Mao. 2015-10-25. Four Way Review. 2018-04-10. en-US.
10. Web site: "The White-Haired Girl" by Sally Wen Mao Indiana Review. indianareview.org. 13 October 2017 . en-US. 2018-04-10.
11. Web site: A Poem by Sally Wen Mao. www.kenyonreview.org. en. 2018-04-10.
12. Web site: The Missouri Review » Sally Wen Mao. www.missourireview.com. 2018-04-10.
13. Web site: Sally Wen Mao. MUZZLE MAGAZINE. en. 2018-04-10.
14. Web site: Four poems by Sally Wen Mao Superstition Review. superstitionreview.asu.edu. en. 2018-04-10.
15. Web site: Sally Wen Mao. Washington Square Review. en-US. 2018-04-10.
16. Sally Wen Mao Writes Visionary Poems for a Blinkered World. Chiasson. Dan. . 14 January 2019 .
17. Web site: New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellows 2016-2017.
18. Web site: PEN/Faulkner & Hill Center Present: Poet Sally Wen Mao – Hill Center DC. www.hillcenterdc.org. en-US. 2018-04-10.
19. Web site: Fellows. Kundiman. en-US. 2018-05-27.