Kenji C. Liu is the author of Monsters I Have Been, published by Alice James Books in 2019, finalist for the California and Maine book awards, and Map of an Onion, national winner of the 2015 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize from Inlandia Institute. His writing appears in numerous journals, anthologies, magazines, and two chapbooks, Craters: A Field Guide, released in 2017, and You Left Without Your Shoes, 2009. An alumnus of Kundiman, the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, and the Community of Writers, he lives in Los Ángeles.