Sally Wen Mao
{{short description|American poet}}
Sally Wen Mao (born in Wuhan, China) is an American poet. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/sally-wen-mao-on-finding-the-necessary-tools-to-write-poems/|title=Sally Wen Mao on Finding the Necessary Tools to Write Poems|website=thecreativeindependent.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-10}}
Life
She grew up in Boston and the Bay Area.{{Cite web|url=http://www.quarterlywest.utah.edu/contributors/Sally_Wen_Mao.html|title=Sally Wen Mao|website=www.quarterlywest.utah.edu|access-date=2018-04-10}} She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA and Cornell University, with an MFA.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/nyregion/in-whitmans-backyard-a-salute-to-poetry.html|title=In Whitman's Backyard, a Salute to Poetry|last=Jacobson|first=Aileen|date=2013-11-01|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web|url=http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Update/July14/EU.Sally.Wen.Mao.html|title=Ezra Update: A honey badger of a poet|website=ezramagazine.cornell.edu|access-date=2018-04-10}}
Her work has appeared in A Public Space,{{Cite web|url=https://apublicspace.org/magazine/detail/ghost_story|title=A Poem by Sally Wen Mao}} Poetry Magazine,{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sally-wen-mao|title=Sally Wen Mao in Poetry Foundation|date=16 January 2023 }} Bomb,{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/three-poems-9/|title=Three Poems by Sally Wen Mao - BOMB Magazine|website=bombmagazine.org|access-date=2018-04-10}} Diagram,{{Cite web|url=http://thediagram.com/12_4/mao.html|title=DIAGRAM :: Sally Wen Mao|website=thediagram.com|access-date=2018-04-10}} Four Way Review,{{Cite news|url=https://fourwayreview.com/two-poems-by-sally-wen-mao/|title=TWO POEMS by Sally Wen Mao|date=2015-10-25|work=Four Way Review|access-date=2018-04-10|language=en-US}} Indiana Review,{{Cite web|url=https://indianareview.org/2017/10/poetry-feature-the-white-haired-girl-by-sally-wen-mao/|title="The White-Haired Girl" by Sally Wen Mao {{!}} Indiana Review|website=indianareview.org|date=13 October 2017 |language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-10}} Kenyon Review,{{Cite web|url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2014-fall/selections/sally-wen-mao-763879/|title=A Poem by Sally Wen Mao|website=www.kenyonreview.org|language=en|access-date=2018-04-10}} Missouri Review,{{Cite web|url=https://www.missourireview.com/people/sally-wen-mao/|title=The Missouri Review » Sally Wen Mao|website=www.missourireview.com|access-date=2018-04-10}} Muzzle,{{Cite web|url=https://www.muzzlemagazine.com/sally-wen-mao.html|title=Sally Wen Mao|website=MUZZLE MAGAZINE|language=en|access-date=2018-04-10}} Superstitution,{{Cite web|url=https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue6/poetry/sallywenmao|title=Four poems by Sally Wen Mao {{!}} Superstition Review|website=superstitionreview.asu.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-04-10}} and Washington Square Review.{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonsquarereview.com/sally-wen-mao/|title=Sally Wen Mao|website=Washington Square Review|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-10}} 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.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/sally-wen-mao-writes-visionary-poems-for-a-blinkered-world|title=Sally Wen Mao Writes Visionary Poems for a Blinkered World|last=Chiasson|first=Dan|magazine=The New Yorker |date=14 January 2019 }}
From 2016 to 2017, she was a fellow at the [https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fellowships-institutes/center-for-scholars-and-writers Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars] at The New York Public Library.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nypl.org/node/413655|title=New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellows 2016-2017}}
From 2017 to 2018, she was Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/penfaulkner-hill-center-present-poet-sally-wen-mao/|title=PEN/Faulkner & Hill Center Present: Poet Sally Wen Mao – Hill Center DC|website=www.hillcenterdc.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-10}}
Sally is a Kundiman fellow.{{Cite web|url=http://kundiman.org/fellows|title=Fellows|website=Kundiman|language=en-US|access-date=2018-05-27}}
Works
- Mad Honey Symposium Alice James Books, 2014. {{ISBN|978-1938584060}}
- Oculus, Graywolf Press, 2019. {{ISBN|9781555978259}}, {{OCLC|1036096587}}
- The Kingdom of Surfaces, Graywolf Press, 2023. {{ISBN|9781644452370}}, {{OCLC|1345220012}}
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- {{cite web | author=abrink | author2=abrink | author3=dimitrov | title=Resurrection | website=Resurrection | date=2017-01-03 | url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/resurrection-0 }}
- {{cite web|url=http://bwr.ua.edu/an-interview-with-poet-sally-wen-mao-from-issue-41-2/|title=41.2 Feature: An Interview with Sally Wen Mao|date=2015-03-02|website=BWR }}
- {{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonians-first-asian-american-lit-fest-writers-share-falooda-politics-and-poetry-180964569/|title=At the Smithsonian's First Asian-American Lit Fest, Writers Share Falooda, Politics and Poetry|last=Gupta|first=Anika|date=2017-08-24|website=Smithsonian }}
- {{cite web|url=http://cafemfa.com/five-questions-for-sally-wen-mao/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411174237/http://cafemfa.com/five-questions-for-sally-wen-mao/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 11, 2018|title=An Interview with Sally Wen Mao|last=Delgado|first=Yohanca|date=2018-01-23|website=Café Américain – An online home for the American University Creative Writing MFA community }}
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Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:People's Republic of China emigrants to the United States