Mandy Tu

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About Mandy Tu

Mandy Moe Pwint Tu is a writer and a poet from Yangon, Myanmar. Her work has appeared in Longleaf Review, West Trestle Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She is pursuing her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is the author of two poetry chapbooks, MONSOON DAUGHTER (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022) and UNSPRUNG (Newfound, 2023). Growing up a woman and an artist under a military dictatorship, Mandy used language to find her voice until writing became an act of survival. At 21, she co-founded the Yangon Literary Magazine, providing a platform for young and emerging Burmese writers to showcase their work. During her undergraduate years at Sewanee, she has been involved in a number of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, serving as the president of the Organization for Cross-Cultural Understanding (OCCU) for two years and as the Order of the Gown president in her senior year. Mandy hopes to continue fighting for inclusion and belonging in every space she enters. In her spare time, you can find her drinking elaborate lattes and ruminating on life and death in local cemeteries and botanical gardens.