In addition to being the editor of this fine journal, now in its fifth year, Carrie is also a poet. Born in New York in 1970, she grew up in California, in the Bay Area. She resides in the Bay Area, enjoys the taste of ornamental jellyfish, dragon cider, and curried mah-poh tofu. She has published three books of poetry, Laundromat, Fairytale Origami, and If Gretel were Chinese. She is also the author of I Dream of Chinese Genie, Muthay, Two Shades of Regret, Monkey-town, and Fairytale Origami and has a fetish for egg-foo-yung, among other wowsy ambrosia. She enjoys the spacy texture of thousand-year-old egg and imperial dan dan noodle eaten in gross contempt of popular diets and such. She is a descendent of Anhui and enjoys eating raisins for breakfast. It’s yum!