Mai Der Vang is the author of Afterland (Graywolf Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Tin House, and the American Poetry Review, among other journals and anthologies. Commencing Fall 2019, Mai Der will serve in the Creative Writing MFA faculty at Fresno State.
The Rumpus celebrates National Poetry Month with new poems daily from poets we admire, illustrating a variety of voices and perspectives in contemporary poetry.