Born: 1990 (circa), United States
Died: NA
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Monica Sok was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1990. She is the daughter of Cambodian refugees and the granddaughter of Em Bun, a master weaver and recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship. Her chapbook Year Zero was selected by Marilyn Chin for a Poetry Society of America 30 and Below Chapbook Fellowship. Currently, she is the 2016-2018 Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University, where she is working on her first book of poems. Other honors include awards and fellowships from Kundiman, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Hedgebrook, MacDowell Colony, the Saltonstall Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc., and Napa Valley, Squaw Valley, and Bread Loaf Writers’ conferences. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Narrative, The New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, and TriQuarterly Review, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University.