Sally Wen Mao

Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces, a finalist for the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Prize. Her debut fiction collection, Ninetails,was released in May 2024. She is the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013 and 2021, The Paris Review, Granta, Poetry, A Public Space, Harpers Bazaar, The Washington Post, and others. The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. She has taught writing at NYU, Cornell, and Sarah Lawrence College, and will be an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Baruch College in 2024.