Karen Llagas’s new chapbook, All of Us Are Cleaved, was published by Nomadic Press in 2023. Her first collection of poetry, Archipelago Dust, was published by Meritage Press in 2010. A recipient of a RHINO Founder’s Prize, Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Poetry Prize & a Hedgebrook residency, her poems have also appeared in various journals and anthologies. Born and raised in the Philippines, she is a lecturer in Filipino at UC Berkeley, and divides her time between San Francisco and Los Angeles.