In this episode, Synapse editor-in-chief Victoria Turner has the pleasure of chatting with Jenny Qi, a 2017 PhD graduate from the Biomedical Sciences Program at UCSF and a former Synapse editor-in-chief. She now works at a competitive intelligence firm while continuing her work as a writer. Her work has been features in such publications as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Tin House, and ZYZZYVA. We talked to her about her recently published collection of poetry, Focal Point, which received the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award.