Mia Kang (she/her) is the author of All Empires Must (Airlie Press, 2025), which won the 2023 Airlie Prize, as well as the chapbooks Apparent Signs (Ghost City Press, 2024), and City Poems (ignitionpress, 2020). Recent work appears in Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Pleiades, wildness, and more. Named the 2017 winner of Boston Review’s Annual Poetry Contest, selected by Mónica de la Torre, Mia has also been a Brooklyn Poets Fellow, runner-up for the 2019 and 2017 Discovery Poetry Contests, and a finalist for the 2019 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Mia holds a PhD in the history of art from Yale University. She lives in Philadelphia, where she is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project. www.miaadrikang.com