Monica Youn

She is the author of three books of poems: Blackacre, Ignatz, and Barter.[2] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker,[3] Poetry Magazine,[4] The Paris Review,[5] among other journals. She has given readings at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA),[6] on NPR's All Things Considered[7] and was a keynote reader at the 2012 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.[8]

She currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University[9] and at the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.[10] She previously taught at Bennington College, Columbia University, and at the Sarah Lawrence College MFA program.

She was the inaugural Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at New York University Law School.[11] She formerly directed the campaign finance reform project at the Brennan Center for Justice.[11] She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States[12] and was co-lead counsel for Defendant-Intervenors in McComish v. Bennett in 2011.[13] She has appeared on PBS Newshour,[14]Hardball with Chris Matthews,[15] Bill Moyers Journal,[16] and Need to Know.[17] She is the editor of Money, Politics and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United.[18] She has testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee,[19] the House Judiciary Committee,[20] and the House Committee on Administration.[21]

She was a pledged delegate for Obama in the 2008 presidential election.[22] She has written for Slate,[23] The Los Angeles Times,[24] and The Huffington Post.[25]

• 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.