Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Mong-Lan left her native Vietnam on the last day of evacuation of Saigon. Former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Fulbright Scholar, she has published seven books of poetry &amp; artwork, three chapbooks, has won prizes such as the Juniper Prize and the Pushcart Prize. Poems have been included in numerous anthologies such as "Best American Poetry Anthology", several Norton Anthologies, and "The Pushcart Book of Poetry: Best Poems from 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize". She has finished a novel, with an excerpt in the "North American Review". While having grown up and educated in the United States, she lived for five-six years in Japan (teaching as a professor with the Univ. of Maryland), and has lived numerous years in Argentina.