Sally Wen Mao lives in a treehouse in Ithaca, New York, where she is currently pursuing her MFA at Cornell University. The recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, she has work published or forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Drunken Boat, Rhino Poetry Journal, and Crab Orchard Review, among others. She recommends persimmons and eating them next to jellyfish aquariums.
Her poem Suspension Theory appeared in Issue 23.1 Winter/Spring 2011.








