Jess Yuan is the author of Slow Render (2024), winner of the Airlie Prize, and Threshold Amnesia (2020), winner of the Yemassee Chapbook Contest. She is a Kundiman Fellow and Miami Writers Institute scholar, and her poems appear in Best New Poets, Tupelo Quarterly Review, jubilat, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, and elsewhere. Born in California to Chinese immigrants, Yuan received her BA in Architecture from Yale and Masters in Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design.