Tina Le is studying secondary English education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where her poetry has received the 2017 Vreeland Award. She is a teaching artist for the Nebraska Writers Collective, working with the Louder Than a Bomb: Great Plains program and continually being awed by the brilliance and strength of middle school and high school students. Recently, her writing has been an exploration and celebration of the identities she had suppressed while growing up.