Bard College at Simon's Rock: the Early College

Poetry & Fiction Series: Monica Youn (NEW DATE)

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Blodgett House


Monica Youn is the author of Blackacre, which won the William Carlos Williams Award, was a finalist for the National Book Critic Circle Award and the PEN Open Book Award, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her previous poetry collections are Ignatz, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Barter. She has been awarded the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and the Witter Bynner Fellowship of the Library of Congress. A Rhodes Scholar, former lawyer, and the daughter of Korean immigrants, she currently teaches at Princeton University and in the Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence MFA programs.