Jennifer S. Cheng writes poetry and lyric essays. She received her MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Iowa, her MFA in Poetry from San Francisco State University, and fellowships from the US Fulbright Program and Kundiman. She is the author of Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press) and her writing appears in Tin House, AGNI, Mid-American Review, Web Conjunctions, Tarpaulin Sky, and elsewhere.