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Lani Park (aka Ishle Yi Park) is an award~winning writer and first woman to serve as the Poet Laureate of Queens, New York (2004-2007).

Her work has been published in numerous literary magazines, journals, anthologies, including Best American Poetry, The Beacon Best,

and Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Koreans in America. Her first book, The Temperature of This Water,

published by Kaya Press, is the recipient of three literary awards, including PEN America's Beyond Margins Award for Outstanding Writers

of Color. Her work is studied in Asian American Literature classes across the United States, and she has been a keynote speaker

and featured guest & writing workshop facilitator at over 300 colleges, universities, literary arts & cultural festivals including Yale University,

Stanford University, Berkeley University, the Singapore Writers' Workshop, the Auckland International Writers' Festival, Waikato University,

University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, Poetry Africa, Calabash Literary Arts Festival in Jamaica, and more. Her next book, a novel~in~verse,

is being published by One World Penguin Putnam Random House in May 2021. The New York Times has said, Ms. Park has "the voice of an angel & the

soul of a rock star."

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