Wing Tek Lum is a Honolulu businessman and poet. His first collection, Expounding the Doubtful Points (Bamboo Ridge Press, 1987), received the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award and the 1988 Association for Asian American Studies Outstanding Book Award. He collaborated with Makoto Ooka, Joseph Stanton, and Jean Yamasaki Toyama on linked verse in What the Kite Thinks (Summer Session, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 1994).