Karen Llagas teaches Intermediate Filipino, as well as summer classes and seminars on Philippine literature and culture (such as Philippine Cuisine & Philippine Myths and Legends) through SSEAS in UC Berkeley. Her first collection of poetry, Archipelago Dust, was published by Meritage Press in 2010. A recipient of a Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize, Hedgebrook residency and a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, her poems and book reviews have appeared in Rhino Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, the anthologies Troubling Borders, An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora (University of Washington Press, 2014), The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010), among others. Living in Los Angeles and San Francisco, you can read her full CV and contact her though her UC Berkeley faculty page.

Kenneth Wong teaches Beginning and Intermediate Burmese, offered by the South & Southeast Asian Studies Department, UC Berkeley. He is the author of Easy Burmese and Survival Burmese, both from Tuttle Publishing; and A Prayer for Burma, from Santa Monica Press. His essays, short stories, and poetry translations have appeared in AGNI, Grain, San Francisco Chronicles, Myanmar Times, Irrawaddy, and Mekong Review, among others. Reach him at his faculty page at UC Berkeley or his personal blog here.