Debora Kuan is the author of two previous poetry collections XING (Saturnalia) and Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press). She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fence, The Iowa Review, ZYZZYVA, and others. She has been anthologized in publications such as the Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Advanced Language and Literature, What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People, and the forthcoming Poetry Studio: Prompts for Poets. She is the current poet laureate of Wallingford, CT, where she lives with her family and works remotely for the MIT Press.