April 4, 2019
“Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets, longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award in Poetry, and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, she served as a Visiting Writer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House, the American Poetry Review, among other journals and anthologies. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere. Mai Der is a member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle where she co-edited How Do I Begin: A Hmong American Literary Anthology. A Kundiman fellow, Mai Der has completed residencies at Civitella Ranieri and Hedgebrook. Born and raised in Fresno, California, she earned degrees from the University of California Berkeley and Columbia University. In Fall 2019, Mai Der will teach in the Creative Writing MFA Program at Fresno State.” Read more.
Public Events (all are welcome!)
- Poetry Reading at 4:00-5:00 (UWL Union 3310)
- Reception at 5:00-6:00 (UWL Union 3105)
- Book Signing at 6:30-7:30 (UWL Union Bookstore)
- Keynote at 7:30-8:30 (UWL Union 3310)
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