Janelle Tan is a poet living in Brooklyn. Born and raised in Singapore, she is an MFA candidate in poetry and teaches creative writing at New York University. Poems appear or are forthcoming in Winter Tangerine, Nat. Brut, The Boiler, Bodega, and elsewhere. She is Web Editor at Washington Square Review and reads for Perugia Press. She has been nominated for Best of the Net, and graduated with highest honors in English and Philosophy from Smith College. The only heaven she believes in is a basket of soup dumplings.