Michael X. Wang was born in Fenyang, a small coal-mining city in China’s mountainous Shanxi Province, and he immigrated to the United States when he was six, and has lived in New York, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, and Florida. He is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Arkansas Tech University, and his work has appeared in New England Review, Greensboro Review, Day One, and Juked, among others. He lives in Russellville, Arkansas.