Sunisa Manning. Half American and half Thai, Sunisa holds degrees from Brown University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Atlas and Alice and elsewhere. She’s been a writer in residence at Hedgebrook and The Hambidge Center, and earned fellowships from the Steinbeck Center and the San Francisco Writer’s Grotto. Sunisa lives in Berkeley, where she’s working on her first novel.