User:Bistort/Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was born in India and raised in India and Nepal. She graduated with a Master's Degree in English Literature from Delhi University and continued her education in the United States with a Master's in Professional Writing from the University of Massachussetts and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. She is the first Tibetan female poet to be published in English.

Rules of the House, Dhompa's first book was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards.