Lisa Kwong

Lisa Kwong is a poet and writer from Radford, Virginia, who identifies as AppalAsian. She holds an MFA in poetry from Indiana University and teaches in its Asian American Studies program. Her poems and essays have appeared in Naugatuck River Review and other journals. Her poetry collection Becoming AppalAsian was published by Glass Lyre Press in 2022. She has coordinated Bloomington's Fountain Square Poetry Series and was named Appalachian Writer-in-Residence by Sundress Academy for the Arts in 2017.