naomi ling
Naomi Ling is a Yale student who loves storytelling for change. Her poetry has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and Best of the Net; in addition, she is a 2023 YoungArts Finalist in Poetry, 2023 Bow Seat Winner in Spoken Word, and 2023 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize Winner, among others. She regretfully doesn't own a typewriter, but if she did, it would be light pink.
chapbook
"Still Portrait of Girlhood" (Bottlecap Press, 2023)
selected poetry
"Self-Portrait as Anna May Wong", "Ghazal for Radium Girls" (diode)
"self-portrait as unborn chinese girl" (Kissing Dynamite)
"American Topography with Insurrection" (Third Wednesday)
"Immigrant Papers" (Meridian)
"Synonyms of Chinese Daughter" (YoungArts 2023 Anthology)
"Haibun for Cantonese, the Bird Language" (Kenyon Review)
"Still Portrait of Suburban Landscape" (Aurora Journal)
"December" (Roanoke Review)
selected prose
"牙齿" (Greenspring Review)
"Daughter in Three Acts" (Gone Lawn)
"We, the Buffaloes" (Apprentice Writer)
selected honors
2024 New York Times Annual Summer Reading Contest. Runner-Up.
2024 Maryland Youth Poet Laureate. Runner-Up.
2024 Howard County Arts Council Scholarship. Winner.
2023 Stevenson University New Voices Contest. Winner.
2023 Ocean Awareness Contest Voice of the Sea Award. Winner.
2023 Scholastic American Voices Medal in Writing. Winner.
2023 Roanoke College High School Fiction and Poetry Contest. Second Place.
2023 Southeast Review Poetry Contest. Semifinalist.
2022 National Student Poet Program. Semifinalist.
2021 Button Eye Review Summer Poetry Contest. Winner.
2021 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize. Finalist.
2021-23 JUST POETRY!!! Top 25 Poetry. National Winner.
2021 New York Times Second Annual Personal Narrative Essay Contest. Finalist.
editorial
Current Managing Editor @ Active Voice Magazine
workshops
2023 Kenyon Review Young Writers Summer Program
2023 Adroit Summer Mentorship Program, under Asa Drake
2022 Iowa Young Writers Studio
2021 Sewanee Young Writers Conference, under Dani DiTiberus
features
Contact
💬 Let's chat about contemporary poetry, the Oxford comma, and the best dim sum dish!
💌 naomi.ling [at] yale [dot] edu
want to work with me?
Having studied and written poetry for 5+ years, I'm honored to have the opportunity to mentor students. Since 2020, I've taught 20+ students in poetry, college essays, public speaking, the Reading SAT section, and English as a second language. My students have gone on to reach the national level in NSDA (Speech), win multiple Debate awards, and receive recognition in competitions such as the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.If you're a middle or high schooler, my services could be for you!
what you can learn
How to write and edit many forms of poetry
How to analyze both classic and contemporary poems
How to submit your works to contests, publishers, and competitive summer programs (<10% acceptance rates)
How to publish your very own poetry book
How to craft the perfect college essay for T20 schools
rates
Intensive Poetry - $70/hour
College Essay Editing - $80/hour
Public Speaking - $70/hour
SAT - $70/hour
book a free consultation
Please email naomi.ling [at] yale [dot] edu with your information and interest. I look forward to meeting you!