Derek Mong (author of The Ego And The Empiricist, Two Sylvias Press, 2017)
Finalist for the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, judged by January Gill O'Neil
Derek Mong is a poet, essayist, translator, and scholar. The Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of English at Wabash College, he has held the Axton Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Louisville and the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. He also taught at the University of Michigan, SUNY-Albany, Stanford University, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society, and with young writers workshops at Kenyon College and Denison University, his alma mater. He received an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in American Literature from Stanford.
The author of two poetry collections from Saturnalia Books--Other Romes (2011) and The Identity Thief (forthcoming, 2018)—his work appears widely: the Kenyon Review, Pleiades, the Southern Review, the Brooklyn Rail, Two Lines, Blackbird, Poetry Northwest, New England Review, and elsewhere. He reviews new poetry for the Gettysburg Review and blogs at the Kenyon Review Online. His work has been anthologized in 99 Poems for the 99 Percent (2014) and Writers Resist: Hoosier Writers Unite (2017). His awards include the Missouri Review ’s Editor’s Choice Prize, two Pushcart nominations, and the Artsmith Poetry Prize.
Born in Portland, Oregon and raised outside of Cleveland, he now lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana with his wife, Anne O. Fisher. Together they received the 2018 Cliff Becker Translation prize for their collaborative translation of the selected poems of Maxim Amelin (Russian, b. 1970): The Joyous Science. This project was awarded a 2010 NEA grant for Literary Translation. It is forthcoming from White Pine Press.
They are the parents of a young son.
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The author of two poetry collections from Saturnalia Books--Other Romes (2011) and The Identity Thief (forthcoming, 2018)—his work appears widely: the Kenyon Review, Pleiades, the Southern Review, the Brooklyn Rail, Two Lines, Blackbird, Poetry Northwest, New England Review, and elsewhere. He reviews new poetry for the Gettysburg Review and blogs at the Kenyon Review Online. His work has been anthologized in 99 Poems for the 99 Percent (2014) and Writers Resist: Hoosier Writers Unite (2017). His awards include the Missouri Review ’s Editor’s Choice Prize, two Pushcart nominations, and the Artsmith Poetry Prize.
Born in Portland, Oregon and raised outside of Cleveland, he now lives in Crawfordsville, Indiana with his wife, Anne O. Fisher. Together they received the 2018 Cliff Becker Translation prize for their collaborative translation of the selected poems of Maxim Amelin (Russian, b. 1970): The Joyous Science. This project was awarded a 2010 NEA grant for Literary Translation. It is forthcoming from White Pine Press.
They are the parents of a young son.
Click here for purchasing information for The Ego And The Empiricist
