Sandy Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan and grew up in New Jersey. She is author of Sediment, a collection of poetry published by Four Way Books in October 2009. Her poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Fugue, Hunger Mountain, The Nation, Third Coast, and other journals. Sandy’s poems have been anthologized in Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves (Deep Bowl Press, 2008). Her awards include The Nation’s 2006 Discovery Award, the Louis Untermeyer scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Vira I. Heinz Foundation scholarship, among others. She has held residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. More information about her work can be found at http://www.sandytseng.com.

Currently Sandy lives in Colorado with her husband, Eric Tham, and teaches writing at Metropolitan State College of Denver. She enjoys skiing, snowboarding, rock climbing, whitewater rafting, and hiking. She also teaches ESL in Haiti, where she has built houses and started a community garden project in Croix-des-Bouquets.