Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003) and Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her chapbooks, Easter Sunday and Cherry, are published by Ypolita Press and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs respectively. Her current manuscript is entitled Diwata, which is a Tagalog word meaning, “muse.” Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in 2nd Avenue Poetry, Asian Pacific American Journal, Boxcar Poetry Review, Chain, Crate, Fairy Tale Review, Interlope, In the Grove, MiPOesias, New American Review, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Octopus Magazine, Parthenon West Review, Traffic, Womb Poetry, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, among others. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland.