Kai Carlson-Wee is the author of RAIL (BOA Editions, 2018). He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and his work has appeared in journals such as The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Tin House, AGNI, and Ploughshares. He currently lives in San Francisco and is a lecturer at Stanford University.