Nhat-Lang Le was born in 1969 in Saigon, emigrated with his family to France in 1983, and moved to the US in 1985. He has a BA in Linguistics and Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He worked for more than a decade as a software programmer, before switching careers to work as a news translator and editor for a Vietnamese media organization based in the Little Saigon area of Southern California. His poems and translations have appeared in the printed magazines The Ky 21, Van Hoc and Van, and the literary e-zines Tien Ve and Da Mau. He has been on Da Mau's editorial staff since 2007. [Poetry]