Harryette Mullen

Poet, writer, and scholar Harryette Mullen is a professor of English at the University of California Los Angeles. Mullen published her first poetry book Tree Tall Women in 1981, written while attending the University of Texas, Austin, where she received her undergraduate degree; her most recent book, Open Leaves / poems from earth - is chapbook published in 2023. In between, she has published dozens of poems, stories, essays, books, and, even, collage art series. Mullen’s poetry collection Recyclopedia (Graywolf 2006) won a PEN Beyond Margins Award in 2007. Her previous book, Sleeping with the Dictionary (University of California, 2002) was a finalist for a National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her work has been reprinted in over one hundred anthologies. She has received awards and fellowships, including the PEN Beyond Margins Award, the Elizabeth Agee Prize, the U.S. Artist Fellowship, the Jackson Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Her M.A. and Ph.D. in Literature are from University California Santa Cruz.