Nicole Tong is the author of How to Prove a Theory (Washington Writers Publishing House, 2017), winner of the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and George Mason University, where she received her MFA. In 2016, she served an the inaugural writer-in-residence at Pope-Leighey House, a Frank Lloyd Wright property in Alexandria, VA. She is a recipient of the President’s Sabbatical from Northern Virginia Community College, where she is a Professor of English. Her writing has appeared in American Book Review, Calyx, Cortland Review, and Yalobusha Review.