Mai Der Vang
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American poet
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's book Yellow Rain was finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[3]
Awards and honors
[edit ]Literature awards
[edit ]| Year | Book | Award | Category | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Afterland | Walt Whitman Award | — | Won | [2] |
| 2017 | National Book Award for Poetry | — | Longlisted | [4] | |
| 2018 | Kate Tufts Discovery Award | — | Shortlisted | [5] | |
| 2022 | Yellow Rain | Pulitzer Prize in Poetry | — | Shortlisted | [6] [7] |
Honors
[edit ]- Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2017.[8]
Works
[edit ]- —— (2017). Afterland: Poems (paperback 1st ed.). Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781555977702.[9] [10] [11] [12]
- —— (2021). Yellow Rain: Poems (paperback 1st ed.). Minneapolis: Graywolf Press. ISBN 9781644450659.[3] [13]
References
[edit ]- ^ "#RedefineAtoZ: Mai Der Vang, a Poet Who Is Embracing the Surprises". NBC News. Retrieved 2017年09月19日.
- ^ a b "Mai Der Vang Wins Walt Whitman Award | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 2017年09月19日.
- ^ 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年06月27日.
- ^ "2017 National Book Award Longlist". National Book Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ "2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner and Finalists". Claremont Graduate University. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ "2022 Pulitzer Prizes". Pulitzer Prize.
- ^ "Poetry". Pulitzer Prizes.
- ^ "Mai Der Vang's Lannan Literary Fellowship Page". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
- ^ Chiasson, Dan (2017年05月08日). "Mai Der Vang's and Airea D. Matthews's Striking Débuts". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X . Retrieved 2017年09月19日.
- ^ "Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2017年09月19日.
- ^ "Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang". The Rumpus.net. 2017年07月07日. Retrieved 2017年09月19日.
- ^ "Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang - Center for the Study of Women". Center for the Study of Women. Retrieved 2017年09月19日.
- ^ Vang, Mai Der (2021). Yellow rain poems. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-64445-065-9. OCLC 1319436953.
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
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American women writers
- American Book Award winners
- American people of Hmong descent
- American poets of Asian descent
- American women poets
- American writers of Hmong descent
- Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
- Living people
- Poets from California
- UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
- Writers from Fresno, California