Monica Youn

Monica Youn
Youn, speaking in 2016
Alma mater	Princeton University, Yale Law School, Oxford University
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Witter Bynner Fellowship

Monica Youngna Youn is an American poet and lawyer.

Youn was raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated from St. Agnes Academy (Texas), Princeton University, Yale Law School with a J.D., and Oxford University with a M. Phil, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.^[1]

Youn is the author of four poetry collections: Barter (2003), Ignatz (2010), Blackacre (2016), and From From (2023).^[2][3] Ignatz was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry;^[4] Blackacre was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry, shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, and was one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Poetry Collections of 2016;^[5] and From From was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry, one of The New York Times Book Review's Best Poetry Collections of 2023, and was recognized as amongst the best books of the year by Time, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and more.^[6]

Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker,^[7] Poetry Magazine,^[8] The Paris Review,^[9] among other journals. She has given readings at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA),^[10] on NPR's All Things Considered^[11] and was a keynote reader at the 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.^[12]

She currently teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.^[13]

She was the inaugural Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at New York University Law School.^[14] She formerly directed the campaign finance reform project at the Brennan Center for Justice.^[14] She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States^[15] and was co-lead counsel for Defendant-Intervenors in McComish v. Bennett in 2011.^[16] She has appeared on PBS Newshour,^[17] Hardball with Chris Matthews,^[18] Bill Moyers Journal,^[19] and Need to Know.^[20] She is the editor of Money, Politics and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United.^[21] She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee,^[22] the House Judiciary Committee,^[23] and the House Committee on Administration.^[24]

She was a pledged delegate for Obama in the 2008 presidential election.^[25] She has written for Slate,^[26] The Los Angeles Times,^[27] and The Huffington Post.^[28]

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• Youn, Monica (7 March 2023). From From. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-64445-221-9.^[39][40][41]
• Youn, Monica (2016). Blackacre. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1555977504.
• Youn, Monica (2010). Ignatz. Four Way Books. ISBN 978-1935536017.
• Youn, Monica (2003). Barter. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf Press. ISBN 1555973817.

• Victoria M. Chang, ed. (2004). "25th & Delores". Asian American poetry: the next generation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07174-4.
• Legitimate Dangers. Sarabande Books. 2006. ISBN 1932511296.
• Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. W. W. Norton & Company. 2008. ISBN 978-0393332384.
• Art and Artists: Poems. Everyman's Library. 2012. ISBN 978-0307959386.

• "Of Poetry and Power: Reflections on the Inauguration", Poetry Foundation

• Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United. Century Foundation Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0870785214.
• "The Chilling Effect and the Problem of Private Action". Vanderbilt Law Review. October 2013.
• "Proposition 8 and the Mormon Church: A Case Study in Donor Disclosure". George Washington Law Review. December 2013.
• "The Roberts Courts' Free Speech Double Standard". American Constitution Society. November 2011.
• "First Amendment Fault Lines and the Citizens United Decision". Harvard Law and Policy Review. February 2011. SSRN 1762746.

• Media related to Monica Youn at Wikimedia Commons