Monica Youn is the author of three books of poems, most recently Blackacre (Graywolf, 2016). She has been awarded the William Carlos Williams Award and the Levinson Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. She has also been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and Stanford University. The daughter of Korean immigrants, and a member of the Racial Imaginary Instititute, she teaches at Princeton University.