This anthology of Asian American wommen poets range from established poets like Marilyn Chin, Franny Choi, Victoria Chang, and Bhanu Kapil to emerging voices like Paul Tran, Ryka Aoki, Hyejung Kook, and Monica Sok. They Rise Like a Wave fosters a poetics of experimenting with language renewing a historically narrow and oppressive Western canon. At this time let us remember that our poetry can be a call to imagine how to build a better world.

Allison Albino is a Filipina American poet and French teacher who lives and writes in Harlem. Her work has appeared with The Rumpus, The Lantern Review, Pigeon Pages, Poetry Northwest, The Oxford Review of Books, The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Common, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, The Fine Arts Work Center and Tin House. Her chapbook, My Mother's Prufrock, was a finalist for YesYes Books' 2019 Vinyl 25 Chapbook Contest. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and has an MA in French literature from NYU. She teaches French at an independent school in New York City.