Carolyn Lei-Lanilau
Carolyn Leilani Yu Zhen Lau is an American poet.Biography
Lei-Lanilau is Hawaiian of Hakka ancestry.
She graduated from San Francisco State University with an M.A. in English. She also studied Chinese philosophy.
She is an educator who teaches poetry and movement to bilingual Chinese and Southeast Asian immigrant children.
Her work appeared in The Bloomsbury Review, The American Poetry Review, Manoa, Yellow Silk, Zyzzyva, and Calyx.
She lectured at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and at West O'ahu, Tianjin Foreign Languages Institute in Hexi District, Tianjin China, and California State University, East Bay.
She divides her time between Oakland, California, and Honolulu.Awards
Anthologies
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