Debora Kuan

Debora Kuan is a poet, copywriter, editor, and educator. Her collection Lunch Portraits was published by Brooklyn Arts Press in 2016, and it draws on everyday American culture, from hot dogs to cinema. She is the author of three poetry collections, including XING (Saturnalia) and Women on the Moon (The Word Works). Her poems and writing have appeared in venues such as Poetry, Kenyon Review, and Artforum. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and has held a Fulbright fellowship in Taiwan. She is a former poet laureate of Wallingford, Connecticut, and works as head of copywriting at MIT Press.