Monica Youn is the author of From From and three previous poetry collections, including Ignatz, a Finalist for the National Book Award, and Blackacre, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The daughter of Korean immigrants, she grew up in Houston, Texas, and now splits her time between New York and California, where she teaches at the University of California, Irvine.

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