Myha Thi Do (she/her/hers) was born in Anaheim, CA, and currently lives in Davis. She earned her MFA degree in Creative Writing Fiction from St. Mary’s College of CA (2009) and is currently a PhD candidate of Comparative Literature at UC Davis. “To Boil Water” won the 2013 Kore Press Short Fiction Award, earned an honorable mention in the E.M. Koeppel Short Fiction Contest (2009) and is part of Myha’s novel manuscript, Earshot. Myha’s poem “The Lie” was published in the poetry anthology, In Other Words (2006), and she received the Jim Townsend Scholarship (2007) for excellence in creative writing.