*Winner of Nightboat Poetry Prize *Of interest to Asian Americans, especially those who are attending college and being exposed to Asian American literature and politics for the first time. Also of interest to readers of color, particularly other women of color and femmes, academic and art communities, particularly those in the fields of Asian American studies or Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Race Studies, English Literature, Sociology, and Creative Writing. *Author is currently a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing-Literature, USC *Author is Editor-in-Chief, Gold Line Press, Member, Miresa Collective, Host and Performer, Lambda Literary Festival, Lambda Literary, Fellow, VONA/Voices Workshop & Kundiman, Co-Poetry Editor, Apogee Journal, Co-Host and Co-Producer, The Blood-Jet Writing Hour, Facilitator, Winter Tangerine and Kundiman Writing Workshop, Reader, Feminist Press, Intern and former curator of the AAWW/Cave Canem Reading Series