Sally Wen Mao
Part-time Faculty
wm499@nyu.edu
714 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Wednesday 3:00-5:00
B.A., Creative Writing and Professional Writing, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
M.F.A., Poetry, Cornell University, 2012
Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for poetry, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014), winner of the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award. Oculus has been featured or reviewed in Nylon, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, NPR, Vulture, O Magazine, Poets & Writers, and The New Yorker, among others. The winner of a Pushcart Prize, she has recent poems published or forthcoming in Poetry, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Tin House, The Missouri Review, The Best American Poetry, The Kenyon Review, A Public Space, and The New Republic, among others. She was a 2016-2017 fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the 2017-2018 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Washington at George Washington University, and a 2021 Shearing fellow at the Black Mountain Institute in University of Nevada Las Vegas. The recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Kundiman, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Lannan Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, and Saltonstall Foundation, Mao holds an MFA from Cornell University. She has taught writing at Cornell University, Hunter College, the National University of Singapore, Sarah Lawrence College, Antioch University, and George Washington University.
Books
2023
Sally Wen Mao's The Kingdom Surfaces was published by Graywolf Press.
Teaching and Research Interests
poetry poetics fiction writing the novel essay lyric essay Asian American studies ethnic studies visual arts visual studies media and cultural studies feminist/gender studies film contemporary literature contemporary art
