DEBORA KUAN is the author of XING, Lunch Portraits, and Women on the Moon. Her writing has appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Kenyon Review, Fence, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Macdowell, and the Santa Fe Art Institute, and has also written about contemporary art for Artforum, Art in America, Modern Painters, Paper Monument, and other publications.