The Powell Scholars Program Presents Award-Winning Author Mai Der Vang

Join us for a discussion and Q&A about her newest book Yellow Rain

The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, her poetry has appeared in Tin House, the American Poetry Review, and Poetry, among other journals and anthologies. Winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, an American BookAward, and a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize inPoetry, along with Afterland (Graywolf Press,2017), winner of the First Book Award from the Academy of American Poets.

She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Fresno State.

A reception will follow the program.

For reasonable accommodations, please email k_ferreira4@u.pacific.edu 48 hours in advance.