Marilyn Chin, Anisfield Wolf Book Award recipient, winner of five Pushcart Prizes and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and current Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Visiting Poet in Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing, will read from her work.

The event is free and open to the public. No advance tickets or registration required.

About the Author

Marilyn Chin is an award-winning poet and author. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon, her works have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Marilyn Chin’s books of poems include Sage, A Portrait of the Self as Nation, Hard Love Province, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, Dwarf Bamboo and The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty. She also published a book of magical fiction called Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, she has translated poems by the modern Chinese revolutionary poet Ai Qing and co-translated poems by the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu.

Chin has won numerous awards, including the Ruth Lilly Prize for lifetime achievement in poetry, the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, the United Artist Foundation award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and the PEN-Josephine Miles Book award, among others. Her work is featured in a variety of anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry, and The Best American Poetry.

Chin has read and taught workshops all over the world and was recently guest poet at universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Manchester, Sydney, Hilo, Berlin and Iowa. She is Professor Emerita at San Diego State University and presently serves as a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets.