Author Bio:

Cela Xiè is a person of twenty-five years who has accomplished nothing in particular, except writing for almost two decades. In that time, he has written one thousand, six hundred and three poems, forty-three short stories, and one draft of a memoir. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry at North Carolina State University. His poem “莫生 Only Absence, No Time” won the AWP Intro Journals Prize and is forthcoming from Mid-American Review. His poetry has been published by Querencia Press, Gyroscope Review and TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and is forthcoming from Sine Theta Magazine, VOLT Magazine and Public School Poetry. He has a receipt book of poems, Before I Spoke to Myself, published by betweenthehighway press.

Artwork by Larissa Hauck