MICHAEL CHANG was awarded the Kundiman Scholarship at the Miami Writers Institute. Their poems have been nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net, & the Pushcart Prize. They are the author of two previous collections of poetry: DRAKKAR NOIR (which won the Bateau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest), & BOYFRIEND PERSPECTIVE (Really Serious Literature, 2021). Their collection CHINATOWN ROMEO is forthcoming from Ursus Americanus Press.