Pui Ying Wong was born in Hong Kong. She is the author of two full-length books of poetry, An Emigrant’s Winter (Glass Lyre Press, 2016) and Yellow Plum Season (New York Quarterly Books, 2010), along with two chapbooks. She won a 2017 Pushcart Prize. Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Plume Poetry Journal, The New York Times, Atlanta Review, The Southampton Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Constellations, among other places. She lives in Cambridge with her husband, the poet Tim Suermondt.