Together with NYU's Creative Writing Program, we celebrate Sharon Wang and the publication of her book Republic of Mercy, the 2016 Kundiman Poetry Prize Winner, with Franny Choi and Mia Ayumi Malhotra! Join us for a reading and celebration at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers' House. RSVP on Facebook here.

Kundiman Poetry Prize winner Sharon Wang’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Antioch Review, Anti-, The Collagist, and The Pinch. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis’ MFA program, Republic of Mercy (Tupelo Press, 2018) is Wang’s first collection.

Franny Choi is the author of Floating, Brilliant, Gone, and the chapbook Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2017). Her second collection, Soft Science, is forthcoming from Alice James Books.

Mia Ayumi Malhotra is the author of ISAKO ISAKO (September 2018), winner of the 2017 Alice James Award.