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Wendy Chin-Tanner is an American poet, editor, and educator. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she was born and raised in New York City and educated at Cambridge University.

Her first full-length poetry collection, Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014), was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and won praise from critics including Eduardo Corral, Garrett Hongo, and Cyril Wong. A second collection, Anyone Will Tell You, will be published in 2019, also by Sibling Rivalry Press.

Chin-Tanner is a founding editor of Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor of The Nervous Breakdown, and co-founder of A Wave Blue World, a press specializing in graphic novels. Her poems and other writings have been published by the Asian American Writers' Workshop and in numerous journals and anthologies including The Mays literary anthology of Oxford and Cambridge, The Saint Ann's Review, Literary Mama, The Rumpus, Alternet, XOJane, and Lantern Review: A Journal of Asian American Poetry. She has been profiled and interviewed in the Huffington Post, The Collagist, the Atticus Review, and other publications.

Chin-Tanner taught sociology online for Cambridge University. She now teaches writing workshops and guest lectures at various institutions. With Cheryl Strayed, she co-organized the 2017 Writers Resist event in Portland.