Michelle Peñaloza, My Mitochondria Are Obsessed with Your Mitochondria

American, b. 1983, playing from Seattle, WA, USA

Michelle Peñaloza grew up in Nashville, Tennessee and earned her M.F.A. from the University of Oregon. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Asian American Literary Review, Great River Review, and Bellingham Review, among others. She is the recipient of the Starlin Poetry Award, fellowships from Kundiman, the Richard Hugo House, and Oregon Literary Arts, as well as scholarships from VONA (Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation), Vermont Studio Center, the Napa Valley Writers' Conference, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She lives and works in Seattle.