Jaspal Kaur Singh is a poet, writer, and an educator. She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (University of Oregon) and a Master of Fine Arts (Northern Michigan University). Jaspal's poems and essays have appeared in South Asian Review, The Offbeat, Dreadlocks Interrupted, Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures, In Other Words: An American Poetry Anthology, and Philosophy and Global Affairs, among others. Jaspal has also created and published videopoems in Superpresent: Magazine for the Arts and Hole in the Head Review. She was born and raised in Burma, lived in India and Iraq, and migrated to the US in 1984 and, for now, calls Portland, Oregon home.