Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, poet and writer, grew up in Dharamshala, India and Kathmandu, Nepal. She completed her BA and MA from Lady Shri Ram College, New Delhi, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Tsering is the author of two books of poems, Rules of the House and In the Absent Everyday, and two chapbooks, In Writing the Names, and Recurring Gestures. Tsering works for the American Himalayan Foundation and lives in San Francisco, U.S.