Evan Wang

Evan Wang (王潇) is the ninth National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of Slow Burn (Northwestern University Press, 2026). He is the youngest winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. 

Wang’s work appears in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Journal, and elsewhere. He has been featured at and recognized by The White House, the United Nations, and the Smithsonian Institution. 

Wang is a first-year student at Harvard College.