Aimee Seu

Aimee Seu is the author of Velvet Hounds, winner of the 2020 Akron University Poetry Prize selected by Philip Metres. Nepenthe Radiant, her new chapbook, will be printed by Finishing Line Press summer 2025. She graduated in 2020 as a Poe/Faulkner Fellow from the University of Virginia Creative Writing M.F.A. Poetry Program,  where she was recipient of the 2019 Academy of American Poets Prize. Other awards she has received include the 2020 Los Angeles Review Poetry Award, the 2020 Henfield Prize for Fiction, the 2016 Academy of American Poets Prize at Temple University, the Temple University 2016 William Van Wert Award, and the Mills College Undergraduate Poetry Award. She was a finalist for the 2020 Black Warrior Poetry Prize judged by Paul Tran and a semifinalist in the 2019 New Guard Vol. IX Knightville Poetry Contest judged by Richard Blanco. Her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared or have forthcoming publications in Poets, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Los Angeles Review, Honey literary, BOAAT, Redivider, Raleigh Review, Diode, Minnesota Review, Blacklist, Adroit, Harpur Palate, Philadelphia Stories, Runestone Magazine, etc.