Burlee Vang is the author of The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth (Swan Scythe Press, 2010) and co-editor of How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011). His prose and poetry have appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review, Asia Literary Review, among other literary journals. His work has also been anthologized in Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers: Best New Voices of 2006 (Random House), Highway 99: A Literary Journey Through California’s Great Central Valley (Heyday), and New California Writing 2011 (Heyday). He founded the Hmong American Writers’ Circle (HAWC) in 2004 to encourage and nurture emerging Hmong writers in the San Joaquin Valley.