Michael Sun is an undergraduate student at Dartmouth College. Michael is from Naperville, IL, and is heavily influenced by both his suburban upbringing and Korean American identity. Some of Michael’s major influences in his writing are poets Vievee Francis, Gregory Pardlo, Matthew Olzmann, and Jamaal May. This is Michael’s second appearance in Bloodroot, and he has also been published in The Stonefence Review and Jar: a Zine, of which he is now an editor.