 A Vietnamese-American born and raised in the American Midwest, Jenna Le earned her B.A. in mathematics from Harvard University before obtaining her M.D. degree at Columbia University. She lives and works as a physician in New York. Le's full-length collection of poems, Six Rivers (NYQ Books, 2011), was a Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Her poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous periodicals including AGNI, Barrow Street, Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, Massachusetts Review, The Normal School, and The Village Voice. Le has been a Minnetonka Review Editor's Prize winner, a two-time Pharos Poetry Competition winner, a William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition finalist, a Michael E. DeBakey Poetry Award finalist, a Pamet River Prize semifinalist, and a Pushcart Prize nominee. She helped select the poetry in the June 2015 issue of Cha. [ Cha profile]  Daryl Qilin Yam is a writer of prose and poetry from Singapore, reading English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick. He is also part of the core team behind the theatre production group Take Off Productions, and a member of the Singaporean young poets' collective Image-Symbol Department. You can learn more about him, his published work, and his current projects at about.me/yammonation. Yam helped select the prose in the June 2015 issue of Cha. [ Cha profile]
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