Jai Arun Ravine is a transgender-identified, multi-disciplinary writer, dancer, visual and performing artist of mixed Thai and white American heritage. Jai received an MFA in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, a BA in Interdisciplinary Asian Studies from Hollins University, and is a Kundiman Fellow. Jai’s work appears in Here is a Pen (Achiote Press, 2009) and under the name Alysha Wood in Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves (Deep Bowl Press, 2008), TinFish 18: The Long Poem Issue (TinFish Press, Summer 2008) and the chap-journal Across and Between the Void (Achiote Press, 2008). For more information, visit http://jaiarunravine.wordpress.com/.