Spencer Jayu Ward is a Korean American hapa, poet, educator, and policy wonk who wears too many hats. A Seattle local, he specialized in international diplomacy and nuclear nonproliferation while earning his B.A. at the University of Washington. After cutting his teeth as a policy analyst in Washington, D.C., Spencer settled back home, and now helps students with disabilities as a high school behavioral therapist and language arts tutor. His poetry - centered around liminality, settler colonialism, and making meaning in the absence of living memory - appears in Chapter House Journal and 300 Days of Sun, and is forthcoming in Mantis. When not reading or writing, you can find him tackling a new recipe in the kitchen, or hunting down sunshine.