The Write Process

Mylo Lam was born in Vietnam and lives in Los Angeles. He and his family are refugees from Cambodia. Mylo’s work has been published or is forthcoming in The Margins, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nightboat Books, and elsewhere. His multimedia work won Palette Poetry’s Brush & Lyre Prize, his poetry won Blood Orange Review's Emerging Writers Contest, and his chapbook AND NOT/AND YET was published by Quarterly West. He is currently pursuing his MFA in Poetry at Randolph College.

And Not / And Yet comprises a series of poems exploring death, foreignness, ancestry, and form through the lens of Buddhist scripture, specifically texts that detail a person's harrowing journey as they transition away from the realm of the living.