Mong-Lan, poet, novelist, essayist, former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a Fulbright Scholar, winner of a Pushcart Prize, the Juniper Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Awards for Poetry, is the author of seven books and three chapbooks, the most recent of which is the full length collection, Dusk Aflame: poems & art, and the chapbook, Tone of Water in a Half-Filled Glass. Other books include One Thousand Minds Brimming; Song of the Cicadas; Why is the Edge Always Windy?, Tango, Tangoing: Poems & Art; Tango, Tangueando: Poemas & Dibujos (the bilingual Spanish-English edition); Love Poem to Tofu & Other Poems (poetry & calligraphic art, chapbook); Love Poem to Ginger & Other Poems: poetry & paintings (chapbook); Force of the Heart: Tango, Art. Mong-Lan’s poetry has been nationally and internationally anthologized to include being in Best American Poetry; The Pushcart Book of Poetry: Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize; Asian American Poetry: the Next Generation; Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (Norton); and has appeared in journals such Kenyon Review, The Iowa Review, and North American Review. Mong-Lan, recipient of the University of Arizona Graduate College Fellowship and the Dean's Master of Fine Arts Fellowship, took her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arizona, Tucson. A former university professor, she has taught at the University of Maryland in Tokyo, Stanford University and the University of Arizona. Also a dancer, visual artist (painter, photographer), musician, composer and singer, she left her native Viet Nam on the last day of the evacuation of Sai Gon. 

Mong-Lan has read and performed her poetry and music on many stages, to include at universities, schools, libraries, bars, and cabarets, across the U.S. and internationally, such as at Harvard University, Stanford University, in poetry festivals and academic presentations in Bali; Indonesia; Germany; Japan, Thailand, Viet Nam, Argentina, to name a few. 
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