Yvanna Vien Tica is a Filipina writer with a hearing impairment who grew up in Manila and a suburb near Chicago. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Verse Daily, Poet Lore, Shenandoah, Poetry Northwest, the minnesota review, Salamander Magazine, Salt Hill, among others. She reads for The Yale Review and Muzzle Magazine, and tweets @yvannavien. In her spare time, she can be found thanking God for another day.