Emily Luan
{{Short description|American poet}}
Emily Lee Luan is an American poet. She is the author of two prize-winning books of poetry: I Watch the Boughs, which was the recipient of a chapbook fellowship by the Poetry Society of America, and 回 / Return, which won the Nightboat Poetry Prize.
Early life and education
Luan's parents grew up in Taiwan. Occasionally, Luan went back to Taiwan with her parents when she was young. Later, she graduated from Middlebury College as an English major in 2015; she had worked at the New England Review in 2014.{{Cite web |date=2021-03-04 |title=Emily Luan |url=https://www.nereview.com/2021/03/04/emily-luan/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=New England Review |language=en-US}} Afterward, she attended the MFA program at Rutgers University–Newark where she both studied and taught poetry.{{Cite web |title=Emily Lee Luan |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2023/10/19/emily-lee-luan/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=BOMB Magazine |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Meet Teaching Artist Emily Lee Luan |url=https://loft.org/writers-block-blog/meet-teaching-artist-emily-lee-luan |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=The Loft Literary Center}}
Career
In 2020, Luan won the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, after which she published her poetry chapbook, I Watch the Boughs. Luan's manuscript had been selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi.{{Cite web |title=2020 Chapbook Fellowship Winner |url=https://poetrysociety.org/award-winners/chapbook-fellowship/2020-chapbook-fellowship/emily-lee-luan |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Poetry Society of America |language=en}}
In 2023, Luan published 回 / Return with Nightboat Books. It had won the 2022 Nightboat Poetry Prize.{{Cite web |date=2023-04-25 |title=Ten Questions for Emily Lee Luan |url=https://www.pw.org/content/ten_questions_for_emily_lee_luan |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Poets & Writers |language=en}} The Adroit Journal compared the book to M. NourbeSe Philip's "The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy" and lauded Luan's "language, absence, and longing rupture against the linearity of time, finality of death, and limits of a life."{{Cite web |last=Chong |first=Sophia |date=2023-05-02 |title=A Review of Emily Lee Luan’s 回 / Return |url=https://theadroitjournal.org/2023/05/02/a-review-of-emily-lee-luans-%E5%9B%9E-return/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=The Adroit Journal |language=en-US}} Publishers Weekly called it a rich and vivid exploration of the Taiwanese American diaspora and said "Through recurring and interwoven motifs of memory, myth, and grief, Luan offers a subtle, engaging, and linguistically exciting reflection on language and place."{{Cite web |date= |title=回 / Return by Emily Lee Luan |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781643621746 |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=www.publishersweekly.com}}
Luan was a 2020 Margins Fellow with the Asian American Writers' Workshop.{{Cite web |last=Bergamini |first=Lina |date=2023-04-25 |title=An Interview with Emily Lee Luan on her debut, 回 / Return! |url=https://nightboat.org/flip-it-and-reverse-it-interview-with-emily-luan-on-her-debut-%E5%9B%9E-return/ |access-date=2024-11-24 |website=Nightboat Books |language=en}}
Personal life
Luan is based in New York City.
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Category:American people of Taiwanese descent
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Rutgers University alumni
Category:Middlebury College alumni