Jean Vengua has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and Gavilan College. She has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley (English), and is the author of Prau and The Aching Vicinities, and winner of the 2007 Filamore Tabios Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize (Meritage Press). With Mark Young, Jean has co-edited The First Hay(na)ku Anthology, and The Hay(na)ku Anthology Vol. II. With Elizabeth H. Pisares, she co-edited and published The Debut: the Making of a Filipino-American Film (by Gene Cajayon and John Manal Castro), and The Flipside: a Filipino American Comedy (and diary of a filmmaker’s first experience at the Sundance Film Festival) by Rod Pulido. Jean’s poetry, reviews, and essays have been published in many anthologies and journals. She lives in Elkhorn California, near Monterey, where she works as a researcher, writer, and editor.