Charlene Y. Kwon holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University and an M.L.A. in Book Arts and English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Dean’s Fellow while attending Columbia, and was a finalist for the Flatmancrooked Prize for Excellent Writing During a Period of Great Fiscal Renewal. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Composition and Rhetoric at Temple University where her research is on digital technology and multimodal learning in the writing classroom. She has taught at the University of the Arts and at Temple University. She lives in Philadelphia.