Marilyn Chin

She has read her poetry at the Library of Congress.

• Name — Marilyn Chin • Birth Name — Mei Ling Chin • Born — 1955 • Birthplace — Hong Kong; • Occupation — Writer • Language — English • Citizenship — USA • Education — University of Iowa • Website — http: www.marilynchin.org/

Chin grew up in Portland, Oregon, after her family emigrated from Hong Kong. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and a B.A. from University of Massachusetts Her poetry focuses on social issues, especially those related to Asian American feminism and bi-cultural identity. Chin has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the United Artists Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, the SeaChange fellowship from the Gaia Foundation, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, five Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. She is featured in several authoritative anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Oxford Anthology of Modern American Poetry, Unsettling America, The Open Boat and The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry. She was interviewed by Bill Moyers and featured in his PBS series "The Language of Life." Her poem “The Floral Apron” was introduced by Garrison Keillor on the PBS special “Poetry Everywhere." ” It was also chosen by the BBC to represent the region of Hong Kong during the 2012 Olympics in London. Chin is professor emerita at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. In January 2018, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

• Civitella Ranieri Foundation • Yaddo • MacDowell Colony • Lannan Foundation • Djerassi Foundation