M. Cynthia Cheung is the author of Common Disaster (Acre Books, forthcoming 2025). Her poems can be found in diode, Gulf Coast, AGNI, Pleiades, swamp pink, and elsewhere. A practicing physician, she serves as a judge for Baylor College of Medicine’s annual Michael E. DeBakey Medical Student Poetry Award. More at www.mcynthiacheung.com. (updated 10/2024)