Monica Sok

Monica Sok is a Cambodian American poet and the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020). She was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1990 and is the daughter of former refugees and the granddaughter of Em Bun, a master weaver and recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship. In 2015, her chapbook Year Zero was selected by Marilyn Chin for a Poetry Society of America 30 and Below Chapbook Fellowship. Currently, Sok is a 2018-2020 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Her work has been recognized with a "Discovery" Prize from 92Y. She has received fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Elizabeth George Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Kundiman, Jerome Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Saltonstall Foundation, and others. She lives in Oakland, CA, and has taught poetry to Southeast Asian youths at Banteay Srei and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants. Visit her at www.monicasok.com and follow her on Twitter at @monicasokwrites. Photo credit: Nicholas A. Nichols.