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Sao Mai

Sao Mai (Tien Vuong) spent years designing data models, managing multibillion-dollar projects, and helping airplanes and EVs take flight before realizing her real engines were made of words. A scientist, analyst, and engineer in previous lives, she now channels that same precision into poetry, distilling love, food, and memory into lyrical experiments that often end with haiku codas. Her work celebrates the quiet rituals of modern life with humor and heart. She is the author of The Goldfish Brain Diaries: Moonlight in Tandem and Heart Echoes, and the founder of Sao Mai Press. Threads / Instagram / Facebook: @sao1665 Substack: https://substack.com/@sao1665 Email: sao.writes1665@gmail.com