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National Book Foundation > Author > Mai Der Vang
Mai Der Vang is an editorial member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle. Her poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and her essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. More about this author >
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 >
Mai Der Vang is an editorial member of the Hmong American Writers’ Circle. Her poetry has appeared in The New Republic, Poetry, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and her essays have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She lives in California.