Jess Yuan is a poet, educator, and architect. Her collection, Slow Render>, is forthcoming in February 2024 as winner of the Airlie Prize, and her chapbook Threshold Amnesia (2020) was winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. She is a Kundiman fellow and is currently earning her MFA in poetry at Johns Hopkins, and her poems appear in and elsewhere. Her work can be found at www.jessicayuan.com