Annie Bien received her first playwriting commission at the Soho Theatre Company in London. Her poetry has appeared in Autumn Sky, Quattrocento, Loch Raven Review, Cadenza, Centrifugal Eye, Kaleidowhirl, Mimesis, Times Online, Flutter, and Bumbershoot. Her fiction has appeared in The Wonderful World of Worders from Guildhall Press. A Pushcart nominee, Bien was also a runner up the Georgetown Review Contest 2006. She has been shortlisted for the Guardian Poetry Workshop, Strokestown 2007 International Poetry Competition, and the Keats-Shelley Prize 2007. She studies Tibetan Buddhist text translation with Robert Thurman and Lozang Jamspal at Columbia University.