Monica Youn

Monica Youn is the author of four books of poetry, Blackacre, Ignatz, and Barter and most recently, From From. She has been awarded the Levinson Prize, the William Carlos Williams Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Witter Bytter Fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship, and she has been a finalist for the National Book Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. The daughter of Korean immigrants, and a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, she teaches at Princeton and in the MFA programs at NYU and Columbia. She was formerly senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice.