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