Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong is a multidisciplinary artist and software developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has lived in nine states and two continents. Art is a way for her to traverse seen and unseen geographies.  Bonnie's poetry has been published in such journals as The California Quarterly, Columbia Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Pedestal, Spillway.  Her first poetry collection is ravel, a finalist for the Many Voices Project by New Rivers Press, and the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. Her work in poetry and fiction has garnered a number of Pushcart nominations.  The play Liriope was the culmination of Bonnie's efforts as artist in residence at Stanford University, and was staged as a work in progress at the university's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.