Yu-Han (Eugenia) Chao was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. Her poetry collection, We Grow Old, is available with The Backwaters Press and her short story collection, Passport Baby, is forthcoming with Rockway Press. Her prose and poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, The Cream City Review, Zyzzyva, and many other venues. She received her master of fine arts degree from Penn State and is currently working on a martial arts screenplay, Desert Opium Flower and novel, Becca.