Shin Yu Pai

Shin Yu Pai is a poet, an essayist, a photographer and book artist, and a curator. She earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in museology from the University of Washington. Her books include AUX ARCS (La Alameda, 2013), Adamantine (2010), Sightings (1913 Press, 2007) and Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003). In 2020, Entre Rios Books will publish ENSO, a 20-year mid-career survey of her work across creative disciplines. She has taught poetry workshops at Southern Methodist University and The University of Texas at Dallas, and served as a manuscript consultant and writing coach for Hendrix College, Grub Street, and Writer’s Garrett. From 2015 to 2017, Shin Yu served as the fourth poet laureate of Redmond, Washington.