The Turtle Head Epidemic
From the Fall 2020 Issue
Sally Wen Mao is the author of the poetry collections Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Mad Honey Symposium (Alice James Books, 2014). The recipient of a Pushcart Prize, she was recently a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, a Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University, and a Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute. Her poetry and prose have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Tin House, Poetry, Harper’s Bazaar, the Kenyon Review, Guernica, and A Public Space, among others. She is a Kundiman fellow in both fiction and poetry.