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AY 2023–2024: ART AND POLITICS IN THE ASIAN DIASPORA
SPEAKER: Sandra Lim, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Sandra Lim will give a poetry reading and take part in a question and answer session.
About the Speaker
Sandra Lim is the author of three poetry collections: The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021); The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize and the Levis Reading Prize; and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Other honors include the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, and fellowships from MacDowell, the Getty Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Hawthornden Foundation. Her writing has appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The Baffler, Gulf Coast, The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. She is a Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and is also on the poetry faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Born in Seoul, Korea, she lives in Cambridge, MA.
