Joan Kwon Glass, author of How to Make Pancakes For a Dead Boy (Harbor Editions, 2022,) was a finalist for the 2021 Subnivean Award, a finalist for the 2021 Lumiere Review Writing Contest, and serves as Poet Laureate (2021-2025) for the city of Milford, Connecticut. She is a biracial Korean-American, a teacher, and a mother.