Marilyn Chin, recipient of the 2019 American Academy of Arts and Letters' prize for Exceptional Accomplishments in Literature, was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her works have become Asian American classics, taught in classrooms internationally. Her most recent collection is A Portrait of the Self as Nation (W.W. Norton, 2018). Her poems have been featured in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. Chin has been awarded five Pushcart Prizes, a United Artist Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, among other honors. A Professor Emerita at San Diego State University, she is a Chancellor at the Academy of American Poets.
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