Sally Wen Mao

Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press, August 2023) and the forthcoming fiction collection Ninetails (Penguin Books). She is also the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). 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 currently teaches at NYU and Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.