Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin (born 1955) is an American poet who grew up in Portland, Oregon, after her family immigrated from Hong Kong. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. Her awards include two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Fulbright Fellowship.^[1] Her poetry focuses on social issues, especially those related to Asian American feminism and bi-cultural identity. She currently teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

Selected bibliography

Poetry

• Dwarf Bamboo (1987)
• The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty (1994)
• Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (2002)

Fiction

• Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (2009)

Edited Anthologies

• Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. Ed. Marilyn Chin and Victoria M. Chang. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
• Dissident Song: A Contemporary Asian Anthology. Ed. Marilyn Chin and David Wong Louie. 1991.

Translations

• Qing, Ai. The Selected Poems of Ai Qing. Trans. Marilyn Chin and Eugene Eoyang. 1985.
• Yoshimasu, Gozo. Devil’s Wind: A Thousand Steps or More. Trans. Marilyn Chin. Oakland University Press, 1980.

References

1. ^ Voices from the Gaps Biography

External links

• Marilyn Chin's Official Website
• Chin's Profile at Modern American Poetry
• Essay by Chin on American Poetry
• Audio: Marilyn Chin reads the poem Blues on Yellow from Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
• Audio: Marilyn Chin reads an excerpt from Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen
• Academy of American Poets

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