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Ai
A collection of biographical, historical, and critical information from the Modern American Poetry website. |
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National Book Award: Ai
Transcription of PBS interview by Elizabeth Farnsworth, November 18, 1999. |
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Norton Poets Online: Ai
Biography, links, and excerpts from Vice and Greed. |
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Ai
Ai, who has described herself as 1/2 Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche, was born in Albany, Texas, in 1947; she grew up in Tucson, Arizona. She legally changed her name to "Ai," which means "love" in Japanese. Ai holds a B.A. in Japanese from the University of Arizona and an M.F.A. from the University of California at Irvine. She is the author of Dread (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003); Vice (1999), which won the National Book Award for Poetry; Greed (1993); Fate (1991); Sin (1986), which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; Killing Floor (1979), which was the 1978 Lamont Poetry Award of the Academy of American Poets; and Cruelty (1973). She has also received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program at Radcliffe College. She teaches at Oklahoma State University and lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
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