Join AAWW in-person and online for a celebration of Emily Jungmin Yoon’s Find Me as the Creature I Am! Emily will be joined by writers Monica Sok and Sally Wen Mao.
Find Me as the Creature I Am is a book full of tenderness and violence, longing and love. Ranging from inherited family tales to meditations on the body to animals’ display of love and grief alike, Emily Jungmin Yoon holds up a mirror to humanity to show that we are animal, too. In poems full of wonder and want, she showcases our tendencies to fight or fly, act with affection and cruelty, and ultimately, overflow with life itself.
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Emily Jungmin Yoon is the author of Find Me as the Creature I Am (Knopf, 2024); A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018), winner of the 2019 Devil’s Kitchen Reading Award and finalist for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Ordinary Misfortunes (Tupelo Press, 2017), winner of the Sunken Garden Chapbook Prize. She has also translated and edited a chapbook of poems, Against Healing: Nine Korean Poets (Tilted Axis, 2019). Individual poems and translations have appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, Poetry, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She has accepted awards and fellowships from the Poetry Foundation and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, among others. Yoon currently serves as the Poetry Editor for The Margins, the digital magazine of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and as an Assistant Professor in the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She has received fellowships from Hedgebrook, Kundiman, MacDowell, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Society of America, and the Wallace Stegner Program at Stanford University. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and The Washington Post. Her very first publication was with The Margins. She is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and currently lives in New York City.
Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collection The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press, 2023), and the forthcoming story collection Ninetails (Penguin Books, 2024). She is also the author of two previous poetry collections, Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). The recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021 and 2013, The Paris Review, Poetry, Harpers Bazaar, A Public Space, Granta, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, Guernica, and A Public Space, among others. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and NYU.