Poet Cathy Song was born and raised in Hawaii. Her work draws on her rich Korean-Chinese ancestry as well as her experiences as an American and a woman. Her first volume of poems, Picture Bride, won the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and was also nominated for that year's National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other collections include Cloud Moving Hands (2007), The Land of Bliss (2001), School Figures (1994), and Frameless Windows, Squares of Light (1988). In 1994, she received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is also the author of the short story collection All the Love in the World (2020).