Wisteria Deng
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee,/And revery./
The revery alone will do
/ If bees are few.”
--Emily Dickinson
Wisteria has received multiple fellowships from Kundiman, Brooklyn Poets, Hudson Valley Writers Center, GrubStreet, Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and Fine Arts Work Center. She is the winner of the Granader Family Prize for Excellence in Writing and the Fischer Prize Honorable Mention. She is the finalist of the Slippery Elm Prose Prize, Nowhere Spring Travel Writing Prize, New Millennium Writing Award, the Disquiet Literary Program, Furious Flowers, among others.
She is thankful for the residency support at Pao Arts Center (2024), Juniper Summer Institute (2025), Fine Arts Work Center (2026 Summer Scholar), McCormack Writing Center (2026; formerly Tin House); VONA Voices (2026), and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (scheduled for 2027).
Read her poems in the Journal of Expressive Writing, the Bangalore Review, Laurel Moon, Runestone, Voice and Verse and elsewhere.
Newly release chapbook: Goodbye Eurydice (finalist of the Finishing Line Press Chapbook Contest).
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