{"id":1374,"date":"2014-06-09T15:07:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T19:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T18:42:42","slug":"mai-wang-receives-emerging-artists-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/06\/09\/mai-wang-receives-emerging-artists-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai Wang Receives Emerging Artists Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/mai-wang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/mai-wang-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"mai-wang\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/mai-wang-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/06\/mai-wang.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hearty congratulations to Mai Wang! A current MFA candidate in fiction, Mai recently received an Emerging Artists Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. \u00a0The St. Botolph club gives grants to exceptional writers, visual artists, and musicians who are beginning their careers.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so proud of you, Mai!<\/p>\n<p>Mai Wang graduated from Yale University, where she was an English major in the Writing Concentration. A former beauty blogger, she has written for print and digital publications such as <em>Upstreet Magazine<\/em>, <em>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em>, and <em>Yahoo Shine<\/em>. In 2013, she was the Writer-in-Residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City, NE. In her writing, she explores themes of immigration and national identity. She is currently working on a novel set in Beijing that is based on her mother&#8217;s experience in the Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty congratulations to Mai Wang! A current MFA candidate in fiction, Mai recently received an Emerging Artists Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation. \u00a0The St. Botolph club gives grants to exceptional writers, visual artists, and musicians who are beginning their careers. We&#8217;re so proud of you, Mai! Mai Wang graduated from Yale University, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[620,858],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}