Phuong Thao Vuong is a proud Oakland native, by way of Hue, Viet Nam. She has been awarded multiple fellowships from VONA/Voices and Kearny Street Workshop’s Interdisciplinary Writers Lab. A Joy Harjo Poetry Prize 2017 finalist, she has publications in or forthcoming in Duende, Cutthroat, Cobalt Review and Tayo Literary Magazine. She is an MFA student at Colorado University at Boulder. She loves Sunday coffee, liberation, and middle school humor.