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EDITORIAL STAFF
Iris A. Law, Editor
Iris A. Law is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA program and a Kundiman Fellow. Her poetry has appeared in publications such as Phoebe, Lumina, Cha, and Kartika Review, and is forthcoming in A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (ed. Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz, U of Akron, 2012).
Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Associate Editor
Mia Ayumi Malhotra is an acting instructor of poetry at the University of Washington, where she received her MFA in 2011. She is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Harold Taylor Prize and the MacLeod-Grobe Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Asian American Literary Review, The Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, Leland Quarterly, and Cha.
LR BLOG STAFF WRITERS
Wendy Chin-Tanner | Interviews
Wendy Chin-Tanner’s poems have appeared in such journals as The Saint Ann’s Review, The Nervous Breakdown, Praxilla, Melusine, The Raintown Review, and Lantern Review. Her first collection, When the Elements Part, has been a finalist for several book prizes including the 2010 Washington Prize. In addition to her duties at Lantern Review, she is a poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, a co-founder of the comics and graphic novel publishing company A Wave Blue World, and an academic supervisor in sociology at Cambridge University, UK.
Henry W. Leung | Columnist, “Panax Ginseng”
Henry W. Leung is a Kundiman Fellow completing his MFA at the University of Michigan. His recent/forthcoming poems and essays can be found in ZYZZYVA, Boxcar, Cerise Press, and Memoir Journal. He will be at AWP 2012 on a panel, “Speaking in Tongues,” about writing within multiple languages and cultures.
Kelsay Myers | Columnist, “Becoming Realer: Identity, Craft, and the MFA”
Kelsay Myers is a Korean adoptee from West Michigan. She studied writing and philosophy at Kalamazoo College and is currently a candidate for an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, CA. In addition to her column on the LR Blog, her work can be found in the Asian adoptee anthology More Voices, the music journal Caught in the Carousel, and on the women of color in academia website, Refuse the Silence. Her writing is about making sense, and art, out of her lived experiences by pushing boundaries in identity construction, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and theory and form.
Jai Arun Ravine | Reviews
Jai Arun Ravine is a mixed race Thai American writer, dancer, video and performance artist. Ze is the author of แล้ว and then entwine, Is This January, and The Spiderboi Files. They received an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung, Djerassi and Kundiman, hir short experimental film on Thai trans-masculinities, Tom/Trans/Thai, recently exhibited at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Thailand. Find Jai online at http://jaiarunravine.
