Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is a poet and a software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has lived in nine states and two continents. Writing is a way for her to traverse seen and unseen geographies. Her work has been nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize, broadcast on Hawaii Public Radio and published in various journals and anthologies, including California Quarterly, The Columbia Review, Crab Orchard Review, Drunken Boat, The Pedestal, Nimrod, and others. Her book-length poetry manuscript, Ravel, has been listed as a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. She is curating a digital anthology, The Taste of Each, which is currently open to submissions.

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