Andrew Chi Keong Yim was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. He was awarded the 2024 New Voices Award in Poetry from Washington Square Review, selected by Terrance Hayes. His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, 32 Poems, Washington Square Review, Bat City Review, and AAWW's The Margins. He has been a public school teacher in Boston and New York City, and has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and with the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project.

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