Lists

Ninetails

Elle, “The Best Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books of 2024, So Far”

Electric Literature, “8 Books Inspired by Asian Mythology”

Polygon, “The Must-Read Books of Spring 2024”

Reactor Magazine, “30 SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2024”

Chicago Review of Books, “12 Must-Read Books of May 2024”

The Kingdom of Surfaces

The New York Public Library, “Best Books of 2023”

Electric Literature, “Best Poetry Collections of 2023”

The Poetry Question, “Best Poetry Collections of 2023”

Hyperallergic, “7 New Art Books We’re Reading This August”

The Millions, “Must-Read Poetry: Summer 2023”

Oculus

Literary Hub: Book Marks, “The Best Reviewed Books of 2019: Poetry”

Time Magazine, “100 Must-Read Books of 2019”

Library Journal, “Best Poetry Books of 2019”

Lit Hub, “13 Books You Should Read this January”

NPR, “Favorite Books of 2019”

O Magazine, “10 Newly-Released Books that Will Give You an Excuse to Stay Indoors This Winter”

The Millions, “Must-Read Poetry: January 2019”

Nylon, “50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019”

NPR, “I Reject Walls: A 2019 Poetry Preview”

New York Times T Magazine, “Inside Five of the Season’s Most Anticipated Books”

Mad Honey Symposium

Bustle, “14 Of The Best Poetry Debuts Of The Last 5 Years”

Publishers Weekly, “Spring 2014 Announcements: Wilds of Humor & Music: Poetry”

Reviews

Ninetails: Nine Tales

Publishers Weekly, review of Ninetails

The Kingdom of Surfaces

Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism, “The Shell of Another Empire: A Review of Sally Wen Mao’s The Kingdom of Surfaces,” by Annelie Hyatt

Full Stop, review of The Kingdom of Surfaces by Maya Williams

Harriet (Poetry Foundation), review of The Kingdom of Surfaces by Christopher Spaide

International Examiner, “Sally Wen Mao’s latest poetry examines how colonialism objectifies people,” by Bella Dalton-Fenkl

LA Review of Books, “Whose Fantasy Is This? On Sally Wen Mao’s The Kingdom of Surfaces,” by Hazem Fahmy

NPR, “3 new poetry collections taking the pulse of the times,” review of The Kingdom of Surfaces by Craig Morgan Teicher

New York Journal of Books, review of The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sarah Kain Gutowski

Preposition Magazine, review of The Kingdom of Surfaces

The Poetry Question, review of The Kingdom of Surfaces

Oculus

The Bind, “Visibility in Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus,” by Madeleine Wattenberg

diode, “A Review of Oculus by Sally Wen Mao,” by Emilia Phillips

Columbia Journal, “Review of Oculus” by Nadia Ismail

The Georgia Review, “On Oculus by Sally Wen Mao,” by Mary-Kim Arnold

Hyperallergic, “Breaking Down the Limits of Identity Through Poetry,” by John Yau

Los Angeles Review of Books, “A Different Lens: A Review of Oculus” by Rachel Carroll

Michigan Daily, “Oculus made me a luddite,” by Verity Sturm

Pleiades, “Rewriting the Technicolor Archive: A Review of Sally Wen Mao’s Oculus,” by Dorothy Chan

Rhino Poetry, “Dismantling the Voracious Eye,” by Luisa A. Igloria

The New Yorker, “Sally Wen Mao Writes Visionary Poems for a Blinkered World,” by Dan Chiasson

Mad Honey Symposium

The Literary Review, “A Review of Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao,” by Alex Crowley

Publishers Weekly, starred review of Mad Honey Symposium

Interviews

“Porcelain Poems: A Conversation with Sally Wen Mao,” LA Review of Books (with Amy E. Elkins)

“Sally Wen Mao Shatters the Looking Glass with Her Poems,” Electric Literature (with Angela Maria Spring)

“Hijacking the Narrative,” The Adroit Journal (with Aline Dolinh)

“The Story of Our Lives Do Not Have Faces,” Bomb Magazine (with Anne Anlin Cheng)

“On Why Honesty is More Important Than Success,” The Creative Independent (with Thora Siemsen)

“Giving up the Gaze,” The Margins (with Jenny Xie)

Features

The New York Public Library, Composing Poetry & Prose

Poetry Centered, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Poetic Awakening

Smithsonian Asian American, A Celebration of Anna May Wong

NPR, “How 3 Women from Wuhan Cope with COVID-19”

New York Public Library Library Talks podcast (with Jenny Xie), “Seeing and Being Seen in Sally Wen Mao’s ‘Oculus,’ Ep. 249”

Poetry Off the Shelf podcast, “Hope in Odd Places,” (with Helena de Groot)

Poets & Writers, “Portraits of Inspiration”

The Rumpus Book Club Selection