Minying Huang is a final-year DPhil candidate in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford and the Stipendiary Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature at St John’s College for Michaelmas Term 2023. Their research focuses on the twentieth-century poetry of the Arab diaspora in the Americas and is funded by a Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities. They hold a BA in European and Middle Eastern Languages (Spanish and Arabic) from the University of Oxford and completed their MA in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. A former Barbican Young Poet, their poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in fourteen poems, wildness, the Los Angeles Review of Books, China Channel, Electric Literature, PANK, and elsewhere. In 2021, they were shortlisted for the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize.
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