Cantab Feature for Wednesday, January 17, 2018: Nancy Huang

Nancy Huang, Write Bloody Chapbook Contest winner and VONA alum. Photo by the author.

Nancy Huang, Write Bloody Chapbook Contest winner and VONA alum. Photo by the author.

Nancy grew up in America and China. She is a winner of the 2016 Write Bloody Poetry Chapbook contest, an Andrew Julius Gutow Academy of American Poets Prize, a Regents Arts & Humanities Award finalist, a James F. Parker Award in Poetry, a 2015 YoungArts Finalist prize, and more. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Vinyl, Bodega Magazine, TRACK//FOUR, Winter Tangerine Review, The Shade Journal, and others. She was a member of UT Spitshine, and competed/resisted at CUPSI 2017 in Chicago, where all her poems were nominated for Best of the Rest. She is an alum of VONA and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop summer graduate session. Her debut poetry collection, Favorite Daughter, is available on Write Bloody Publishing. Visit her at nancyjhuang.com.

This show in our weekly Wednesday series takes place at the Cantab Lounge, 738 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge. Doors for the show open at 7:15. The open mic begins at 8:00 and the feature performs at approximately 10:00. The Last Chance poetry slam will follow. The show is 18+ (ID required) and the cover charge is $3.