Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collections The Kingdom of Surfaces (Graywolf Press, 2023), Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013 and 2021, The Paris Review, Granta, Poetry, A Public Space, Harpers Bazaar, The Washington Post, and others. She has taught writing at NYU, Cornell, and Sarah Lawrence College, and is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Baruch College in 2024.