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Mai Der Vang (2017)

Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet.

Life and education

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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

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Literature awards

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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

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  • Lannan Literary Fellowship, 2017.[8]

Works

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  • —— (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

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  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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