Julia Wong Kcomt was born into a tusán (Chinese Peruvian) family in Chepén, Peru, in 1965. She traveled from an early age, and her perceptions of country borders, different cultures, and diversity in ethnicity and religion became a strong motivation to write. She is the author of many volumes of poetry, fiction, and hybrid prose. She currently lives between Lima and Lisbon.
Jennifer Shyue is a translator from Spanish. Her work has appeared in 91st Meridian, Action Blog, AGNI, American Chordata, The Arkansas International, Astra Magazine, Bennington Review, Circumference, The Common, Guernica, Inventory, Latin American Literature Today, The Margins, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, New England Review, The Offing, Oversound, A Perfect Vacuum, Poetry, Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, SP Blog, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Words Without Borders and has received support from Cornell University’s Institute for Comparative Modernities, the Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa. Her translations include Julia Wong Kcomt’s chapbook Vice-royal-ties (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021) and Augusto Higa Oshiro’s novel The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu (Archipelago Books, 2023).. She is an assistant editor at New Vessel Press and a member of Ugly Duckling Presse’s Señal collective. She can be found at shyue.co.
