Marylin Mei Ling Chin, Writer/Professor

Education
M.F.A.-English/Creative Writing, Poetry, May, 1981 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
B.A.-Asian Studies/Chinese Language and Literature, May 1977 Honors College, Cum Laude, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Post-graduate-Stanford University, Stegner Fellow, 1984-85

Awards and Honors
RECIPIENT of the Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan, 1999-2000, P.E.N. Josephine Miles Award, 1994, the Pushcart Prize, 1994, 1995, 1997, The Best American Poetry of 1996, Blue Mountain Colony, 1996, the Gjerassi Foundation Fellowship, 1989, Bay Area Bo~ ` Review Award, 1987, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in Poetry, 1991, 1985, the Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing, Stanford University, 1984-5, the Mary Robert Rinehart Award in Poetry, 1983, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Summer 1983,. Centrum Fellowship, 1987, MacDowell, 1987, Reader's Digest Award, Yaddo, 1990-94, Villa Montalvo Artist Residency, 1992, 1999 ... and others.

Teaching Experience
Full Professor, San Diego State University, 1996 to present
Associate Professor, SDSU,1992-95.
Assistant Professor, SDSU, 1989-92. Visiting Professor, UTS, Sydney, Fall, 2001
Visiting Fulbright Professor, National Dong Hua Univ., Taiwan 1999-2000
Visiting Professor UCSD, 1993, University of Hawaii, Hilo, 1997.
Visiting Associate Professor, English/Asian American Studies, UCLA, Spring 1990. Instructor/Teaching Fellow, Comparative Literature Department,
University of Iowa, 1980-1982.

Other:
STEGNER FELLOW, 1984-85, Graduate Poetry Workshops, Stanford University. BILINGUAL REHABILITATION SPECIALIST, Crestwood Hospital, Vallejo, CA. 1983.
Bilingual counselor and Adult Education instructor for a private psychiatric hospital

Additional Experience
Translator/Editor/Project Coordinator, International Writing Program, University of Iowa, 1978-82.

Guefst Editor of special international double issue of "The Iowa Review." 1984 (later converted to paperback anthology titled Writing from the World, University of Iowa Press, 1985

Languages
Reading proficiency: Modem Chinese, Classical Chinese, some French
Speaking proficiency: Chinese: Taishan, Cantonese, some Mandarin

Memberships
Associated Writers and Poets; Writers and Poets, Inc.: The Academy of American Poets, International PEN

Professional Growth

Books--original poetry:
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. Norton, N.Y., 2002

The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Emntv, Milkweed Editions, 1994.

Dwarf Bamboo, Greenfield Review Press, N.Y., 1987.

Books-edited and co-edited:
The Pushcart Prize XXIII Best of the Small Presses, Norton, N.Y., 1999.

Dissident Song, A Contemporary Asian American Anthologx, University of California Press, Santa Cruz, 1991.

Writing from the World, Iowa Translation Series, University of Iowa Press, IA., 1985.

Books--translated:
Selected Poems of Ai Oina, edited by Eugene Eoyang, translated by Marilyn Chin, Peng Wenlan and Eugene Eoyang, Indiana University Press, bilingual, 1982.

Devil's Wind: A Thousand Steps or More, poetry by Gozo Yoshimasu, co-translated with the author, KTDid Books, Oakland University Press, MI, 1980.

Critical Response:
Reviews of my books of poems have been published in the following journals at. 1 newspapers: THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, POETRY FLASH, SMALL PRESS REVIEW, INTERNATIONAL EXAMINER, BELLE LETTRES, LITERARY CENTER QUARTERLY, Forbidden Stitch (anthology of Asian American women writers edited by Calyx Books, Oregon State University Press), QUARTERLY WEST, MELUS, MS, PARNASSUS, ETHNIC LITERATURE, NEW YORK NEWSDAY, THE PROGRESSIVE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY, THE HUNGRY MIND REVIEW, THE VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, THE AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, etal...

Literary journals and anthologies:
"Summer Love," poem, NORTON INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, 8j" edition, 2001

"The True Story of Mortar and Pestle," poem, THE PARIS REVIEW, NY, 2001

"Imitating Li Po, Referencing Tu Fu, Sampling Keats, Undoing Donne," essay, AFTER CONFESSIONS Graywolf Press, MN, 2001

"The Drunken Husband," THE IOWA REVIEW, 2001

"Four Dissident Chinese Poets," translations, PARNASSUS, NY, 2001

"25 Haiku," poems, PARNASSUS, NY, 2001

"Five poems," translations into Chinese, CHUNG WAI WEN HSUEH, Taipei, 2001

"The Survivor," poem, with critique by Poet Laurette Rita Dove, THE WASHINGTON POST, 2000

"The Floral Apron,' poem with discussion, GLENCOE LITERATURE, Course 5, McGraw Hill, NY, 2000

"Autumn Leaves," "Beijing Spring," "Composed Near the Bay Bridge," poems, THE COLUMBIA ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN'S POETRY, edited by Erin Belieu and Susan Aizenberg, Columbia University, NY, 2000

"Blues on Yellow," poem, WE WORK FOR PEACE, edited by Bret Axel, Z press, NJ, 2000

"How I Got that Name," poem, ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AMERICAN POETRY, edited by Carey Nelson, Oxford University Press, London, 1999

"First Lessons," poem, BOOMER GIRLS, edited by Jeanine Gremin, University of Iowa Press, IA, 1999

"Horse, Horse, Hyphen, Hyphen," poem, PARNASSUS, NY, 1999

"We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra," THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, 1998

"A Break in the Rain," LITERATURE FOR LIFE AND WORK, edited by Elaine Johnson, Southwestern Educational books, 1998.

"Altar," "Autumn Leaves," POEMS, POETRY, POETS, edited by Helen Vendler, Harvard Univ. Press, 1998

"Asian American Poet," THE WRITER'S CHRONICLE, front page featured interview, AWP newsletter, 1998

"Autumn Leaves," POETRY IN MOTION, poems on posters placed in transit buses, subways and trains in NYC, Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles, 1998

"Elegy for Chloe Nguyen," "How I Got that Name," LITERATURE AND ITS WRITERS, edited by Ann and Samuel Charters, St Martins, 1997

"A Portrait of the Self as Nation," MAKING WAVES II, edited by Elaine Kim, Beacon, 1997.

"Round Eyes," Michigan Quarterly Review, 1997.

"Happiness, A Manifesto," PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY XXI, 1997.

"Cauldron," THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY, 1996, edited by Adrienne Rich, Scribners, 1996.

"Poem," DOG MUSIC, edited by Jim Simmerman, St. Martins, 1996.

"We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra," THE BEST OF THE IOWA REVIEW, edited by David Hamilton, University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Three poems, THE IOWA REVIEW, September, 1996.

Poems and interview: THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE, A FESTIVAL OF POETS, edited by Bill Moyers and James Haba, Doubleday, 1995.

An essay and Asian American Bibliography, JUNE JORDAN'S POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE A Revolutionary Blueprint, Routledge, 1995.

Videotape and audiotape THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE, A FESTIVAL OF POETS, edited by Bill Moyers Productions.

Teaching guide THE LANGUAGE OF LIFE, Doubleday, 1995.

Teaching Guide for the Internet, CDROM, Doubleday 1995.

"The Barbarians are Coming" PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY, XX, 1996.

"A Portrait of the Self as Nation" PUSHCART PRIZE ANTHOLOGY, XIX, 1995.

"The True Story of Mr. and Mrs. Wong" (story) MICROFICTION, anthology of stories edited by Jerome Stern, Norton, 1996.

"Happiness, A Manifesto (story) ON A BED OF RICE, edited by Geraldine Kudaka, Anchor/Doubleday, 1995. "Summer Sonatina," "Libations," IOWA REVIEW, 1996.

"A Portrait of the Self as Nation," THE BEST OF ZYZZYVA, University of Arizona Press, 1996.

Three Poems, THE KAYA ANTHOLOGY OF ASIAN AMERICAN POETRY, Kaya Productions, 1995.

Three poems, ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE, A BRIEF INTRODUCTION, edited by Shawn Won-, Harper Collins, 1995.

"Happiness, A Manifesto," ZYZZYVA, 1995.

"Moon," a story, CHARLIE CHAN IS DEAD, edited by Jessica Hagedorn, Simon and Shuster, 1994.

"We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra," "How I got that Name," Elegy for Cloe Nuygen," "The Floral Apron", UNSETTLING AMERICA: RACE AND ETHNICITY IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETRY, edited by Jennifer Gillan, Viking/Penguin, 1994.

"Barbarian Suite," American Rain," "Exile's Letter," "Repulse Bay," THE OPEN BOAT, edited by Garrett Hongo, Doubleday, 1993.

Three poems, WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, URBAN AMERICAN POETRY SINCE 1975, edited by Nicholas Christopher, Scribner, 1993.

Four poems, THE OREGON ANTHOLOGY, Oregon State Univ. Press, 1992.
"Elegy for Cloe Nuygen," Ms., Summer, 1992.

"The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty," DISSIDENT SONG, A CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY, Quarry West/University of California press, 1992.

"Aubade" THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE Fifth Edition, edited by Jerome Beatty and J. Paul Hunter, forthcoming, 1991.

"Aubade" THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE (shorter edition) edited by Jerome Beatty and J. Paul Hunter, forthcoming, 1991.

"Aubade" THE NORTON INTRODUCTION TO POETRY, Sixth edition, edited by Jerome Beatty and J. Paul Hunter, forthcoming, 1991.

"We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra," "Red Peonies in a Slender Vase," "Beauty is not Regalia," "Summer, a Last Letter," "The End of a Beginning," ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE AMERICAN POETS, edited by Sauling Wong, University of California/Shanghai Press joint publication, 1990.

"Turtle Soup," "Tienamen" Kenyon Review, 1991.

"Beijing Spring" "The Tao and the Art of Leavetaking" "New Years Lament" Parnassus, 1991.

"The Administrator, "Exile's Letter," Women in Exile, an Anthology of Women's Poetry, Ed. Debra Keenan, MN: Milkweed Editions 1990.

"Ode to Prized Koi," Seneca Review, 1991.

"Stream," "How I got that Name," Iowa Review, 1991. "Exile's Letter," The American Voice, 1991.

"Song of the Sad Guitar" ZYZZYVA, Vol. VI, #2,1990.

"Is It Snowing in Quangtung?" "Sakura, Painter," QUARRY WEST, #27,1990.

"The Barbarians Are Coming," "The Floral Apron," PLOUGHSHARES, 1990.

"Autumn Leaves," THE AMERICAN VOICE, spring, #18,1990.

"Where is Your Mother the Moralizer?" QUARTERLY WEST, 1989.

"Art Is What Humans Leave Behind, Roberto," "After My Last Paycheck. . ." The Uncommon Touch, an anthology of contemporary poetry, Stanford University Press, 1989.

"Gruel," "The Floral Apron," "Summer Love," Women Writer's of the West, an anthology, 1989.

"Old Asian Hand," "Suddenly, A Small Jet Crosses Her Vision," River Styx x, 1989.

"Buddha's Eating a Cold Feast Now," "Diana Takes a Nap," "Old Asian Hand," WOOSTER REVIEW, 1989.

Interview with Denise Levertov, POETRY FLASH, 1989.

Interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, POETRY FLASH, 1989.

"Art Wong Is Alive and Well and Living in Oakland. . . ," THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW, 1988.

"Gruel," PLOUGHSHARES, 1988.

"We Are Americans Now, We Live in the Tundra," Forbidden Stitch, an anthology of Asian American poets, Calyx/Oregon State University Press, 1988.

"Grandfather Wong," Blue Funnel Line, an anthology of Asian American Writers, University of Washington Press, 1988.

"Its Name," "Reggae Renga," FIVE FINGERS REVIEW, 1988.

"The Administrator," CALIBAN, 1988.

"Urban Love Poem," ZZYZYVA, 1988.

"The Narrow Roads of Oku," "Vandals, Early Autumn," "We Are Americans Now," IOWA REVIEW, 1988.

"And All I have Is Tu Fu," "How We Saved the Other," "Composed Near the Bay Bridge," CALIBAN, 1987.

"Art Wong is Alive and Well," ZZYZYVA, 1986.

"Unrequited Love," NEW LETTERS, 1985.

"Unrequited Love," "My Hometown's Base Creatures (tr.)," "Snowy Morning (tr.)," Yearbook of American Poe , Monitor Book Co., 1985.

"I Strain My Ears," "Arranging Chaos," "Lakeside," "Autumn Flowers"--prose by Gozo Yoshimasu; "Snowy Morning" by Ai Qing; "My Hometown's Base Creatures," "The Morning Reading" by Wu Cheng; "Wandering was Always an Important Theme in my Lyric," by Tetsuo Nakagami; "For the Desert Island," by Tae-Ch'ul Shin and others ... Writing from the World, Iowa Translation Series, University of Iowa Press, 1985, (translations)

"I'm Ten, Have Lots of Friends and Don't Care," MS, 1985.

"Love Poem from Nagasaki," "A Day in the Life of Soldier John," "Beauty, My Sisters, is No Regalia," "So Lost in Him," YELLOW SILK, 1985.

"Grandmother Poems," "Chinaman's Chance," "The Landlord's Wife," "Write, Do Write," "We Are a Young Nation, Uncle," Breaking Silence. An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets, Greenfield Review Press, 1984.

"The End of a Beginning," POETRY NOW, 1984.

"We Are a Young Nation, Uncle," "Li Ch'ing, Heart of Han," MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, 1983.

"A Chinaman's Chance," "Grandmother Poems," "Repulse Bay," Brown Review,_ Winter, 1983.

"I'm Ten, Have Lots of Friends and Don't Care," Br idge (special literary anthology), 1983.

"The Coal's Reply," "The North," "Sun." poems by Ai Qing, The Iowa Review, Spring, 1982.

"Snow Falls Over China," by Ai Qing, Seneca Review, 1982.

"A 17-line Love Poem on Poverty," Kayak, 1982.

"American Rain," "Counting, Recounting," Writer's Forum, 1982.

"No Dreams," 200 Contemporary Poets, edited by David Ray, Swallows Press, 1981.

"Three Poems by Tetsuo Nakagami" Modern Poetry in Translation, 1980.

"Adrenalin," (6-page prosepoem) by Gozo Yoshimasu, The International Portland Review, 1980.

"Inobosaki," "I'm Lying in Bed and. . .", "Wandering Always Was a Theme in My Lyric," by Tetsuo Nakagami, Rikka, 1980.

Judged for poetry prizes:
The National Book Award
National Endowment for the Arts Panel Selection Panel for Yaddo
Small Press Traffic, San Francisco The Virginia Prize, Virginia
The California Arts Council
The Minnesota Arts Council (the Loft)

Readings and Lectures:
Hong Kong University, October, 2000
National Dong Hwa University, December, 2000 Academica Sinica, Taiwan, November, 1999
National Taiwan University, Taiwan, November, 1999 National Hsin-chu University, Taiwan, November. 1999 Tamkang University, Taiwan, November, 1999
UTS, Sydney, Australia, December, 1999
The National Library of Singapore, October, 1999 Singapore Institute of Education, October, 1999
The National University of Singapore, October, 1999 Duke University, North Carolina, March, 1999
Westpoint Military Academy, New York, March, 1999 . Chicago Institute of Art, February, 1999
Indiana University, Bloomington, February, 1999 University of Illinois, Champaign, February, 1999 San Jose Museum of Art, January, 1999
The University of California, Berkeley, invited by U.S. Poet Laurette, Robert Hass, September, 1998 SUNY, Brockport, New York, March, 1998
Colby College, Maine, March, 1998 Bentley College, Boston, March, 1998 Philadelphia College, March, 1998 Tucson Poetry Festival, April, 1998 The Goethe Center; Berlin, Germany, September 1997. Literatur Haus, Hamburg Germany, September, 1997
University of Hawaii, Hilo and Manoa,1997
James Wright Festival, San Jose, CA., March, 1997. Poetry Society of New Zealand, Wellington, Dec. 1996. University of Arizona, Tucson, October, 1996. University of Southern California, February, 1996. Claremont College, February, 1996.
University of Massachusetts, Boston, February, 1996. Tufts University, February, 1996.
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, October, 1996. Asia Society, New York City, November, 1996. Whittier College, January, 1996.
Harvard, February, 1995.
University of Montana, October, 1995. Hamilton College, February, 1995. University of Wisconsin, Madison, March, 1995. University of Chicago, March, 1995.
CAL State, Fresno, April, 1995.
Poetry Society of America, Los Angeles, May, 1995. The Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival, September, 1994. The Library of Congress, December 1994.
Passaic Community Colleges, October 1994. UCLA, May, 1994.
Brown University, 1994. Wellesley College, May 1994. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 1994.
University of Minneapolis, April, 1994.
Asian American Renaissance, Hamline College, April, 1994. University of Utah, April, 1994.
UC Santa Cruz, April, 1994. University of Colorado, April, 1994. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 1994. Delgado College, New Orleans, March 1994. Arizona Community College, Tucson, March, 1994. UC Berkeley, March, 1994.
University of Oregon, March, 1994.
Western Washington State, Bellingham, March, 1994. Washington University, St. Louis, February, 1994. Sarah Lawrence College, September, 1992.
Yale University, New Haven, CT., September, 1991. Alfred University, Alfred, NY., September, 1991. C.S.U. Faculty Institute, Kirkwood, CA., August, 1990. University of Hawaii, Manoa, August, 1990.
Wellesley College, Massachusetts, March, 1990. University of California, San Diego, April, 1990. Tufts University, Boston, March, 1990.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, March, 1990. Folger Library, Washington D.C., March, 1990. Hobart College, Geneva, NY, February, 1990. University of California, San Diego, November 1989. Sixth Annual Asian American Studies Conference, New York, June, 1989. Panelist for the California Arts Council, Sacramento, April, 1989.
Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, April, 1989. CAL State Northridge, March, 1989.
University of California, Riverside, "Writer's Week", February, 1989. San Jose Unified School District, November, 1988.
San Jose Poetry Center, San Jose State University, November, 1988.
National Poetry Week (Curator for the Asian American panel), San Francisco, October, 1988. Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco, May, 1988.
Powell Bookstore, Portland, May, 1988. University of Oregon, Eugene, May, 1988. Morrison Reading Series, American Studies Department, University of California,- Berkeley, April, 1988. Asian American Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, April, 1988.
Cody Books, Berkeley, March, 1988.
KPFA radio interview/reading, Berkeley, March, 1988. New Bones, New York, March, 1988.
Poetry Society of America, New York, March, 1988.

Readings and Lectures for 1985-87:
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Stanford University, Stanford University of Iowa, Iowa City
Modern Language Association Meeting, New York

Courses Taught:
Lower Division:
Introduction to Creative Writing (English 280)
Introduction to Literature (English 220) (SDSU and University of Iowa)
American Autobiography (University of Iowa) (includes an ethnic section: Frederick Douglas, Malcolm X., Black Elk, Maxine Hong Kingston, etal. .)
Asian American Literature (UCLA M102)

Upper Division:
Advanced Poetry Writing (English 580) Translation Workshop (University of Iowa) Asian Poetry (Comparative Literature 430) Ethnic Poetry (English 579)
Techniques of Poetry (English 570) Special Studies (English 499)
Asian American Autobiography (UCLA Seminar Series)

Graduate Division:
M.F.A. Poetry Workshop (English 680 & 780) Form and Theory of Poetry (English 630) Manuscript Consultation (M.F.A. Seminar English 789) Contemporary World Poetry in Translation (719)

Service to the University
Director of the Living Writers Series, 1989-present.

Service to the Community
Assistant to MFA Director, 1992-present.

Judge for the RUTH LAKE MEMORIAL AWARD, Poetry Society of America, 1994.

Panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Translation Division.

Poetry Selection panelist for the Corporation of Yaddo, 1993-present.

Guest speaker for "Poetry for the People", UC Berkeley, 1993, 1994.

Mentoring Program, Asian American Renaissance, Minneapolis, 1994.

Panelist for the National Book Award in the category of poetry, etc..
 

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