Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong was born in Wisconsin and raised in Hong Kong; she has lived in Indiana, Connecticut, Michigan, New York, and Massachusetts. She began writing poetry as an undergrad at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She currently lives in California with her husband and two children. Her work has appeared in the California Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, the anthologies Yellow As Turmeric, Fragrant As Cloves, Families: the Frontline of Pluralism, and others. She is completing a manuscript for her first collection of poems.