Derek Mong was the 2008 – 2010 Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville, where he taught literature, creative writing, and hosted “The Soul That Grows in Darkness: The Axton Festival of Film and Verse.” From 2006 – 2007 he was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has previously taught at the University of Michigan, SUNY-Albany, and with young writer’s workshops at Kenyon College and Denison University, his alma mater. While living in the Berkshires he held classes at Edna St. Vincent Millay’s home in Austerlitz, New York. In the fall of 2010 he will begin a PhD in English Literature at Stanford University.
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Derek’s debut collection of poetry, Other Romes, will be published by Saturnalia Books in February, 2011.