born September 5, 1950 New York City
died December 8, 1990 from rare complications after surgery
mother Chee Kin Chung
father Wilbur Chung
older sister Edna Chung
published her poetry in several anthologies and journals, including The Portable Lower East Side and IKON, and posthumously in Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry and Chain
a teacher of mathematics in Lower East Side public schools who often taught in Spanish, she was awarded several poetry fellowships by the New York Times Co. Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts
Frances Chung at Academy of American Poets
"the great american yellow poem"
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