Emily Lee Luan

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Emily Lee Luan is a Taiwanese American poet and essayist. Her debut poetry collection, 回 / Return, won a Nightboat Poetry Prize and will be published in 2023.

She is also the author of I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a 2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.

A former Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, Best New Poets 2019, American Poetry Review, The Offing, and elsewhere.

She holds an MFA in Poetry from Rutgers University-Newark and lives in Brooklyn.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Poetry 2021

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