Chin, Marilyn, 1955-

Marilyn Chin b. 1955, Hong Kong; grew up in Portland, Oregon; BA, University of Massachusetts, MA University of Iowa; poetry focuses on social issues, especially those related to Asian American feminism and bi-cultural identity; won numerous awards for her poetry, including the United Artists Foundation Fellowship, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard, the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship at Bellagio, the SeaChange fellowship from the Gaia Foundation, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, the Stegner Fellowship, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, five Pushcart Prizes, a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; professor emerita at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University; elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets