Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat is a Thai-Vietnamese American poet and essayist. She’s the author of Em(body)ment of Wonder (Raine Publishing, 2021), It Wasn’t a Dream (Fahmidan Publishing & Co., 2022), and CARE INSTRUCTIONS (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Her writing appears in The Orange County Register, Button Poetry, Honey Literary, The Cincinnati Review, West Trestle Review, Inlandia, Midway Journal, diaCritics, and elsewhere. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @madamewritelyso. Also, find her work at https://tanyasangpun.com/creative-writing/.