Stacey Park is a writer, teacher, and scholar. She was born in Seoul, grew up in Vancouver, B.C., and now lives in southern California. Her chapbook manuscript “The Year of the Sheep” was a finalist in the 2023 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest at YesYes Books.

Previously, her poetry has been published in Decomp Journal, Baltimore Review, Portland Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cortland Review, Curator Magazine, and elsewhere. She also served as co-Editor-in-Chief of Foothill Poetry Journal from 2020-2021.

She holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Toronto, and an MFA in Creative Writing from CSU, Long Beach. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at Claremont Graduate University, and she teaches English at LA Valley College. In her free time, she is working on a full-length manuscript and writing music.