About

Sandra Lim’s latest book of poetry is The Curious Thing (W.W. Norton, 2021). Her previous books of poetry are The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize selected by Louise Glück, and Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). Her writing has appeared in a range of literary journals, including The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The New Republic, The Baffler, and The New York Times Magazine, among others.

She is the recipient of the 2023 Jackson Poetry Prize, judged by Joy Harjo, Carl Phillips, and John Yau. Additional honors include a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, a 2020 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2015 Levis Reading Prize for The Wilderness, as well as fellowships from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Getty Foundation. In 2023, she was named Distinguished University Professor at UMass Lowell, where she teaches creative writing and literature. She also serves on the poetry faculty in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.