Ha Kiet Chau

Crazy Beautiful

Ha Kiet Chau is a Chinese-Vietnamese American writer and the author of the poetry collection, Eleven Miles to June (Green Writers Press, 2021). She received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and is a recipient of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program Scholarship and the Bernice Ruben Arnold Award. Her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in North American Review, Ploughshares, NELLE, South Carolina Review, and The Margins. Ha teaches art & literature in the SF Bay Area and serves as a judge for the 2026 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Her YA novel in verse, Darling Winter, is forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press. Find Ha on Instagram @sweetpoeticsoo.