Mai Der Vang

Mai Der Vang (2017)

Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet.

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.

Vang's book Yellow Rain was finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[3]

Awards and honors

Literature awards

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

  • Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2017.[8]

Works

  • —— (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

  1. ^ "#RedefineAtoZ: Mai Der Vang, a Poet Who Is Embracing the Surprises". NBC News. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  2. ^ a b "Mai Der Vang Wins Walt Whitman Award | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. 28 March 2016. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "2017 National Book Award Longlist". National Book Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  5. ^ "2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award Winner and Finalists". Claremont Graduate University. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  6. ^ "2022 Pulitzer Prizes". Pulitzer Prize.
  7. ^ "Poetry". Pulitzer Prizes.
  8. ^ "Mai Der Vang's Lannan Literary Fellowship Page". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved August 9, 2018.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ "Mai Der Vang with Alex Dueben". brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  11. ^ "Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang". The Rumpus.net. 2017-07-07. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  12. ^ "Afterland: Poetry of Mai Der Vang - Center for the Study of Women". Center for the Study of Women. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  13. ^ Vang, Mai Der (2021). Yellow rain poems. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-64445-065-9. OCLC 1319436953.

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