Associate Professor of English
Areas of research and teaching: poetry and poetics; Asian-American poetry; early American literature
Selected publications and creative projects:
Early Morning Under Persimmon [poetry collection]. Writers Texas Press, Inc., 2008.
* Poems in poetry journals
“Safe” in Ploughshares
“Country of Small Things” and “Hiroshige” in Lyric Poetry Review
“Eclipse,” “Fission,” “Ocean Dragon Dim Sum Girl,” “Ukiyo-e,” and “Little Boar’s Head” in Spoon River Poetry Review
“A Cure for Smell” and “Monday’s End” in Nimrod
“Belen, Santuario de San Antonio” in Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
“To Have a Friend,” “The Echoes,” and “To See What Has No Existence is Impossible” in Zone 3
Selected honors:
Finalist, Kenyon Poetry Prize, 2003 Finalist, Morse Poetry Prize, 2002 Finalist, National Poetry Series, 2000 Finalist, New Issues Poetry Prize (New Issues Press), 2000 and 2002 Finalist, Hayden Carruth Poetry Prize (Copper Canyon Press), 2000 Finalist, Beatrice Hawley Prize (Alice James Books), 2000 Finalist, Anhinga Poetry Prize (Anhinga Press), 2000
M.A. thesis committees:
Committee member for Ayana Young M.A. '10, "Death as an Act of Creation: Cultural Myths in 20th Century Film."
