Monica Youn
Monica Youngna Youn is an American poet and lawyer.
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Alma mater | Princeton University, Yale Law School, Oxford University |
Genre | Poetry |
Notable awards | Witter Bynner Fellowship |
Life
Youn was raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated from St. Agnes Academy (Texas), Princeton University, Yale Law School with a J.D., and Oxford University with a M. Phil, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.[1]
Literary career
She is the author of three books of poems: Blackacre, Ignatz, and Barter.[2] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker,[3] Poetry Magazine,[4] The Paris Review,[5] among other journals. She has given readings at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA),[6] on NPR's All Things Considered[7] and was a keynote reader at the 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.[8]
She currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University.[9]
Legal career
She was the inaugural Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at New York University Law School.[10] She formerly directed the campaign finance reform project at the Brennan Center for Justice.[10] She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States[11] and was co-lead counsel for Defendant-Intervenors in McComish v. Bennett in 2011.[12] She has appeared on PBS Newshour,[13]Hardball with Chris Matthews,[14] Bill Moyers Journal,[15] and Need to Know.[16] She is the editor of Money, Politics and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United.[17] She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee,[18] the House Judiciary Committee,[19] and the House Committee on Administration.[20]
She was a pledged delegate for Obama in the 2008 presidential election.[21] She has written for Slate,[22] The Los Angeles Times,[23] and The Huffington Post.[24]
Awards
- Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University[1]
- Yaddo residency[1]
- MacDowell fellow[25]
- 2008 Witter Bynner Fellowship[26]
- Rockefeller Foundation / Bellagio—Villa Serbelloni,[27]
- National Book Award Finalist 2010[28]
- National Book Award Longlist 2016[29]
- William Carlos Williams Award 2017[30]
- National Book Critics Circle Award finalist 2017[31]
- PEN Open Book Award Finalist 2017[32]
- John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 2018[33]
- Levinson Prize, Poetry Foundation 2019[34]
Bibliography
Collections
Poems in anthologies
- Victoria M. Chang, ed. (2004). "25th & Delores". Asian American poetry: the next generation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07174-4.
- Legitimate Dangers. Sarabande Books. 2006. ISBN 1932511296.
- Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. W. W. Norton & Company. 2008. ISBN 978-0393332384.
- Art and Artists: Poems. Everyman's Library. 2012. ISBN 978-0307959386.
Literary criticism
Law
- Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United. Century Foundation Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0870785214.
- "The Chilling Effect and the Problem of Private Action". Vanderbilt Law Review. October 2013.
- "Proposition 8 and the Mormon Church: A Case Study in Donor Disclosure". George Washington Law Review. December 2013.
- "The Roberts Courts' Free Speech Double Standard". American Constitution Society. November 2011.
- "First Amendment Fault Lines and the Citizens United Decision". Harvard Law and Policy Review. February 2011. SSRN 1762746.
References
- "Monica Youn Lecturer in Creative Writing". Lewis Center, Princeton. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- "Barter | Graywolf Press".
- "Against Imagism". newyorker.com. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Blackacre by Monica Youn". poetryfoundation.org. 8 April 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5777
- "Museum of Modern Art - MoMA". moma.org. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "NewsPoet: Monica Youn Writes The Day In Verse". npr.org. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-02. Retrieved 2012-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Monica Youn". princeton.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Monica Youn - Brennan Center for Justice". brennancenter.org. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Arizona Free Enterprise Club v. Bennett - Brennan Center for Justice". brennancenter.org. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "2010 Term Opinions of the Court". supremecourt.gov. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june10/scotus2_01-21.html
- "'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Thursday, July 9". msn.com. 10 July 2009. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Bill Moyers Journal . Monica Youn and Zephyr Teachout - PBS". pbs.org. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Watch Full Episodes Online of Need To Know on PBS - Newsmakers Interview: Monica Youn". pbs.org. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-06-16. Retrieved 2012-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/11-04-12%20Youn%20Testimony.pdf
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2012-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-09-13. Retrieved 2012-08-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- Youn, Monica (27 August 2008). "Adventures of an Accidental Delegate". Retrieved 9 April 2017 – via Slate.
- "Search Results". slate.com. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- Youn, Monica (10 January 2010). "Giving corporations an outsized voice in elections". Los Angeles Times.
- Youn, Monica. "Monica Youn". Huffington Post.
- "The MacDowell Colony". macdowellcolony.org. Archived from the original on 26 May 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Witter Bynner Fellows 2008". The Library of Congress Webcasts. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "FOUR WAY BOOKS: About Monica Youn". fourwaybooks.com. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "Monica Youn, Ignatz - 2010 National Book Award Poetry Finalist, The National Book Foundation". nationalbook.org. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- "2010 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- "Monica Youn: Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award in 2017". Poetry Society of America. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- "National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for 2016 Awards". Critical Mass: The blog of the National Book Critics Circle Board of Directors. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- "2017 Pen America Literary Awards Finalist". Pen America. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- "Monica Youn". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
- "Poetry Magazine Prizes". Poetry Magazine.
External links
- Media related to Monica Youn at Wikimedia Commons