Lara Ek

Lara Ek is a Hungarian-American who long taught English in China and now works with international exchange. Her previous publications are in The Colored Lens, Crossed Genres, the Dieselpunk Anthology, and the Q&W Old Weird South Anthology, among others. She speaks enough languages for half of her fingers, is interested in everything, and has walked among the raisin huts of Xinjiang and the melting ruins of Yar/Jiaohe, where this poem is based.