Teresa Mei Chuc and her family were granted political asylum in the U.S. as refugees of the war in Vietnam. Her poetry engages her family history as well as the wider subject of human trauma and healing. She is the author of three collections-most recently, "Invisible Light" (Many Voices Press, 2018)-and several chapbooks. A featured reader at venues across the U.S., Chuc was an Altadena Poet Laureate in 2018-2020. She is founder and editor-in-chief of Shabda Press and the editor of the poetry anthology, "Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands" (Shabda Press, 2017) and co-editor of the anthology "Altadena Literary Review 2020." She is a fellow of and teacher consultant for Cal State L.A.'s Los Angeles Writing Project.
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