Marilyn Chin

Marilyn Chin is the author of three books of poetry, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (2002), The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty (1994), and Dwarf Bamboo (1987), which was nominated for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. She also co-edited Dissident Song: A Contemporary Asian American Anthology (with David Wong Louie, 1991) and co-translated The Selected Poems of Ai Qing (with Eugene Eoyang, 1985). She has also published poems in numerous journals and anthologies, including Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, The Columbia Anthology of Women’s Poetry, The Writer’s Chronicle, The Best American Poetry 1996, Pushcart Prize Anthology (XXI and XIX), and Ploughshares, among several others. The Love Palace, a play, will be produced by Core Ensemble and is scheduled to be on tour in the fall of 2003. Her honors include two National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowships, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, and a Stegner Fellowship, among others. Chin was awarded the P.E.N. Josephine Miles Award in 1994 and the Pushcart Prize in 1994, 1995 and 1997. She currently teaches literature and creative writing at San Diego State University.

Marilyn Chin will be teaching a poetry workshop at the 2003 conference.

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