Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis, PhD, is Curator of Asian Pacific American Studies at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. He is also founding Director of the Washington, DC-based arts nonprofit The Asian American Literary Review. He served as guest editor for the July 2017 special Asian American poetry issue of Poetry, and his writing has appeared in Ploughshares, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Kenyon Review, Gastronomica, Amerasia Journal, and AGNI Online.