Sally Wen Mao is the author of a forthcoming book of poems, Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), which received the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award and was a finalist for the 2012 Tupelo Press First / Second Book Prize. Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 2013 and is published or forthcoming in Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Passages North, Quarterly West, Third Coast, and West Branch, among others. She is a Kundiman fellow and earned an MFA from Cornell University, where she is a lecturer.  

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