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Monica Sok is the author of A Nail the Evening Hangs On (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) and the chapbook Year Zero, winner of a 2015 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, selected by Marilyn Chin.
She is a recipient of fellowships and grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation, Hedgebrook, Jerome Foundation, Kundiman, MacDowell, and the Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Her poetry has been recognized with a 2018 Discovery Poetry Prize from 92Y.
She is also the granddaughter of Bun Em, a master silk weaver from Takeo and a 1990 recipient of a National Heritage Fellowship for her efforts in the cultural preservation of traditional textiles. Monica followed in her grandmother’s footsteps and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry in 2017.
She earned her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University. She recently taught as a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants in Oakland, CA. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Paris Review, POETRY, Kenyon Review, and New Republic, among others.