Kenneth Wong is a Burmese-American author, translator, and language teacher. Born and raised in Rangoon (Yangon), Burma (Myanmar), he currently lives in San Francisco, California, and teaches Burmese language at UC Berkeley. His essays, short stories, articles, and poetry translations have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Irrawaddy, Myanmar Times, Two Lines Press, Portside Review, and The Journal of Burma Studies, among others.