April Yee is a writer and translator published in Salon, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Electric Literature, and Ploughshares online. A Harvard and Tin House alumna, she reported in more than a dozen countries before moving to the UK, where she serves on the University of the Arts London's Refugee Journalism Project. She is a National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and the University of East Anglia’s Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholar.
The judge of my most missing secret / gifted me a tome by a man who’d died, / poems on being a man, being white, / being from our country’s seceding side.