Debora Kuan is the author of two poetry collections, Lunch Portraits and XING. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, The New Republic, Michigan Quarterly Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, and other publications. She has been awarded residences at Yaddo, Macdowell, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She is currently a teaching artist at the 92nd Street Y and the poet laureate of Wallingford, CT, where she lives with her husband and children.