Monica Youn

Monica Youngna Youn is an American poet, and lawyer.

Life

She was raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Princeton University, Yale Law School with a J.D., and Oxford University with a M. Phil, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.

She works as a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice, New York University Law School,^[1] and teaches at Columbia University.^[2] She appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews.^[3] She is on the Advising Artists Council, for the Millay Colony for the Arts.^[4]

Her poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry,^[5] Gulf Coast,^[6] Paris Review.^[7] Her collection Ignatz was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry.

She lives in Manhattan.^[4]

Awards

• Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University
• Yaddo residency ^[8]
• MacDowell fellow ^[9]
• 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship

Works

• "Venice, Unaccompanied", Poetry Foundation
• "Titian’s Salome", AGNI 53, 2001
• "the wedding of ignatz", Tin House Review, Fall 2005
• "Epistle to Ignatz". The Brooklyn Rail. September 2004. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2004/09/poetry/monica-youn. 
• "Ignatz Invoked; Winged Ignatz; Ignatz Domesticus". Paris Review (181). Summer 2007. http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5777. 
• "Ignatz Oasis; Ersatz Ignatz; I-40 Ignatz". Guernica. April 2008. http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/543/three_poems_6/. 

• Barter. Graywolf Press. 2003. ISBN 9781555973810. 

Anthologies

• Victoria M. Chang, ed (2004). "25th & Delores". Asian American poetry: the next generation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252071744. http://books.google.com/?id=f0QxrGA2vb8C&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&dq=Monica+Youn. 

Essays

• "OF POETRY AND POWER: REFLECTIONS ON THE INAUGURATION", Poetry Foundaion

References

1. ^ http://www.brennancenter.org/content/people/monica_youn
2. ^ http://www.loc.gov/poetry/bynner.html
3. ^ http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/31848671/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews/
4. ^ ^{a b} http://www.millaycolony.org/advising
5. ^ http://www.oxfordpoetry.co.uk/history.php?contrib=xyz
6. ^ http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/index.php?n=3&si=7&s=3&o=3
7. ^ http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5777
8. ^ http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:7BlLyFXY-REJ:www.yaddo.org/yaddo/pdfs/writers.pdf+monica+youn+yaddo&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AHIEtbTAmbH_DENQETVeJ3qkYVJqtIvfSw
9. ^ http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php

External links

• "Monica Youn", Library of Congress

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