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Derek Mong [1]

Listed as: 
Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer, Translator
Public address: 
W. Lafayette, IN
Indiana US
Email: 
mong_derek@yahoo.com
Bio: 

Derek Mong is the author of three poetry collections from Saturnalia Books—Other Romes and The Identity Thief and When the Earth Flies into the Sun (2024)—and a chapbook, The Ego and the Empiricist, from Two Sylvias Press. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared widely: the LA Times, the Boston Globe, the Kenyon Review, Pleiades, Free Inquiry, & the New England Review. He and his wife, Anne O. Fisher, received the Cliff Becker Translation Award for The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxin Amelin (White Pine Press). Together they run the literary journal, At Length. A contributing editor at Zócalo Public Square, he lives with his family in Indiana where he is an Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at Wabash College.

 

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Twitter/X: 
derek_mong
Born in: 
Portland, OR
Oregon
Raised in: 
Cleveland, OH
Ohio
Website: 
https://www.derekmong.com [2]
Prizes won: 

Los Angeles Press Club Award, MMA Research Scholars Grant Co-Winner (Wabash College), Cliff Becker Translation Award Co-Winner (with Anne Fisher, American Literary Translators Association), Axton Fellowship in Poetry (University of Louisville), Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow (University of Wisconsin), Editors' Choice Prize (The Missouri Review) Hopwood Poetry Award and Hopwood Creative Non-Fiction Award (The University of Michigan)

Education: 
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Writers Retreats: 
Willapa Bay AiR
Prefers to work with: 
Any

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