Monica Youn
BIOGRAPHY
Monica Youn’s first collection
Barter was published by Graywolf Press in 2003, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, most recently in
Tin House and forthcoming in
Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry. Awards include the Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. She works as a media and entertainment lawyer in Manhattan, but is currently taking the summer off work to finish her second collection
Ignatz, a series of poems loosely based on the mouse character from George Herriman’s
Krazy Kat comic strip of the 1920s-30s. Photo by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey.
