Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus (Graywolf Press 2019) and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books 2014). Her work has won a 2017 Pushcart Prize and is published or forthcoming in A Public Space, Poetry, Black Warrior Review, Guernica, The Missouri Review, Tin House, The Best of the Net 2014 and The Best American Poetry 2013, among others. The recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Kundiman, the New York Public Library Cullman Center and Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Mao holds an MFA from Cornell University. Recently, she was the 2017-2018 Jenny McKean Writer in Washington at the George Washington University, a post that Lucille Clifton held from 1981-1982.