신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin, MFA, MAT, is the author of poetry/essay collections Unbearable Splendor (Minnesota Book Award); Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black (Asian American Literary Award) (all published by Coffee House Press). She is the editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. Her bilingual (Korean/English) illustrated children’s book is Cooper’s Lesson. She is the co-director of Poetry Asylum and is also an emerging healing practitioner. She lives in Minneapolis; more at www.sunyungshin.com.