Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is a poet, playwright and multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses seen and unseen geographies. She has lived in nine states and two continents, and creates in many languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, ruby, and javascript. Her work in poetry and fiction has garnered six Pushcart nominations, and has appeared in journals such as the California Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, Columbia Review, Nimrod, and The Pedestal. Her first book of poetry, ravel, was a finalist for prizes by White Pine Press and New Rivers Press. The digital index page of ravel can be found at: http://www.bonniekwong.info/ravel. Liriope, her first play, was staged at Stanford University's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Her second play, There's No Stopping to My Thoughts, was staged at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center with a grant from the California Arts Council.
