Mai Der Vang

Longlist, 2017 National Book Awards

Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain, a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her first book Afterland was Longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and selected for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award. Learn more >

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Afterland

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ISBN 9781555977702
Graywolf Press

Afterland is a powerful, essential collection of poetry that recounts with devastating detail the Hmong exodus from Laos and the fate of thousands of refugees seeking asylum. More about this book >

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Mai Der Vang

Mai Der Vang is the author of Yellow Rain, a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. Her first book Afterland was Longlisted for the National Book Award, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and selected for the Academy of American Poets’ Walt Whitman Award. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, she teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at California State University, Fresno.

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