Mai Der Vang
California State University, Fresno
English Department

Mai Der Vang is the author of the poetry collection Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Born and raised in Fresno, California, she earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and elsewhere.  Listen as she reads passages from Afterland and yet to be released works. 

Recorded: March 2019