Derek Mong is the author of three poetry collections from Saturnalia Books: Other Romes, The Identity Thief, and When the Earth Flies into the Sun (2024), as well as a chapbook, The Ego and the Empiricist, from Two Sylvias Press. His individual poems, essays, and translations have appeared widely in the LA Times, the Boston Globe, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Pleiades, Booth, and the Indianapolis Review.

He and his wife, Anne O. Fisher, received the Cliff Becker Translation Award for The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin (White Pine Press). Together, they run At Length, an online literary journal devoted to long work.

Derek moved to Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 2016 to begin his work at Wabash College, where he is currently an associate professor of English. Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised outside of Cleveland, Ohio—with stints as the Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, the Axton Poetry Fellow at the University of Louisville, and various other Midwest and West Coast locales—he currently lives with his wife and son in West Lafayette. He is a contributing editor for Zócalo Public Square.