Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong has published the poetry collections ravel (Neopoesis Press), The Quenching (Finishing Line Press), and the department of peace (Sixteen Rivers Press). As an artist in residence at Stanford University, she staged the performance Liriope at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Her play, There’s No Stopping to My Thoughts, was staged at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center with a grant from the California Arts Council. Her fourth book, Thank You Silence, a blend of poetry and prose, is forthcoming with Omnidawn in February 2027.

Project Lead: Writing and Performing Poetry: Women in Migration