Shao Wei (American poet)’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American poet
Is Poet 
From United States of America 
Type Literature 
Gender female

Wei Shao is a Chinese American poet and memoir author.

Life

Growing up by the Yangtze River, she came to the U.S. as a graduate student in Jan. 1996. She graduated from University of Texas, New York University with an M.A., an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, and Ph.D. in the School of Arts & Humanities at UT Dallas. She taught Introductory Creative Writing at UTDallas, and formerly taught at the College of New Rochelle, Rosa Parks Campus, and Chinese at the China Institute, in New York City.

Her work appears in Parnassus, Crab Orchard Review, Seneca Review, 5 AM,

Awards

  • 2002 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
  • 2000 New York Foundation for Arts
  • 1999 Rona Jaffe Foundation award
  • “browse”. 

Works

  • “Horse Riding”; “Chasing in the Wind”, Homestead Review
  • “Spirit of Butterflies Lovers, Story of A Chinese Classic Music”, Brooklyn Rail, May 2001
  • Pulling a Dragon’s Teeth. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8229-5835-2. 
  • Nine Songs. Females, a poetry collection published in Chinese

Non fiction

  • Culture Bird: Looking for Myself in New York, Beijing, Guangming Daily Publishing House, 2001
  • “Homeland“, Taibei, Taiwan New Century Publishing House, 2011

Review

Winner of the 2002 Agnes Lynch Starrett poetry prize, this volume depicts a woman creating an identity out of two cultures. Caught between China and America, East Sichuan and Manhattan, the Yangtze River and the Hudson River, Shao Wei searches for sources of nourishment in a world in which she is forced to cut her heart “into two halves?”

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