Sally Wen Mao

Sally Wen Mao is the author of Oculus, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Her first book, Mad Honey Symposium, was the winner of the 2012 Kinereth Gensler Award. She was born in Wuhan, China and raised in the Bay Area, California.

“The Belladonna of Sadness,” A Poem by Sally Wen Mao

From the Collection The Kingdom of Surfaces

August 8, 2023 By Sally Wen Mao

“Wet Market”

A Poem by Sally Wen Mao

September 14, 2020 By Sally Wen Mao

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