Ishle Park is a writer, educator and activist who has performed at colleges in the United States, Cuba and Korea as both a solo artist and as part of a pan-Asian collective Feedback. She is the first Korean American woman to compete in the National Poetry Slam. Currently Ishle teaches creative writing and poetry in high schools, colleges, prisons, and community centers as part of Youthspeaks and WritersCorps. She worked as Arts-In-Education Director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and was a poetry editor for Gathering of the Tribes and The Asian Pacific American Journal. A recipient of a fiction grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts, her work has appeared nationally in New American Writing, Slam, The Cream City Review, The NuyorAsian Anthology, and Beacon Best 2001. Catch her on the HBO series Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry, and on the Def Poetry College Tour from California to Illinois to New York.