Mai Der Vang

Mai Der Vang (born October 20, 1981) is an American poet.

Mai Der Vang
Alma mater
Awards
  • Kundiman fellow
  • Walt Whitman Award 
Websitehttp://maidervang.com/ 

Life and education

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.

Works
  • Afterland: poems Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press, 2017. ISBN 9781555977702, OCLC 947147147[3][4][5][6]*

Awards and Honors
  • Walt Whitman Award, 2016.
  • National Book Award Finalist, 2017.[7]
  • Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2017.[8]
  • Kate Tufts Discovery Award finalist for Afterland (2018).[9]
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References
  1. "#RedefineAtoZ: Mai Der Vang, a Poet Who Is Embracing the Surprises". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  2. "Mai Der Vang Wins Walt Whitman Award | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  3. 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.
  4. "Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  5. "Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang". The Rumpus.net. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  6. "Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang - Center for the Study of Women". Center for the Study of Women. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  7. "2017 National Book Award Longlist". National Book Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  8. "Mai Der Vang's Lannan Literary Fellowship Page". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  9. "2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner and Finalists". Claremont Graduate University. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
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