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Headshot of Jade Cho from the shoulders up. She is smiling in a green button-up under a eucalyptus tree.

Jade Cho is a poet and educator from Oakland, California. A recent Stegner Fellow and finalist for the National Poetry Series, her poetry has appeared in The Adroit Journal, Black Warrior Review, Poem-a-Day, Poetry Northwest and elsewhere. She is a recipient of residencies from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay AiR and Headlands Center for the Arts. She holds degrees from UC Berkeley, where she studied and taught in Poetry for the People, and Arizona State University, where she served as a June Jordan Teaching Fellow. A grandchild of immigrants from Hoisan (Toisan/Taishan), she is working on a book tracing memory, grief and desire through the archive of Chinese Exclusion and the Chinese Confession Program. She lives and teaches in the Bay Area.

Photo by Jemimah Wei

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