Biography

海子 （1964－1989）生长于安徽省查湾村。他15岁考入北京大学， 20岁开始在中国政法大学教哲学和艺术理论。1984至1989年间，他写了200来首短诗和几部史诗。1989年3月他在北京山海关卧轨自杀。他死后出版的书包括《土地》（1990）、《海子、骆一禾作品集》（1991）、《海子的诗》（1995）、《海子诗全编》（1997）、《海子》（2006）、《海子诗选》（2006）和《海子诗集》（2007）。

HAI ZI (1964–1989) was born and raised in a farming village in Anhui Province. When he was fifteen he passed the entrance exam to the prestigious Beijing University, and at twenty, he started teaching philosophy and art theory at China University of Political Science and Law. Between 1984 and 1989, he wrote about 200 poems and several epics. He committed suicide in March 1989 by laying himself on a railroad track at Beijing Shanhaiguan. His books have been published posthumously in China include Earth (1990), Works of Hai Zi and Luo Yihe (1991), Poems of Hai Zi (1995), The Complete Works of Hai Zi (1997), Hai Zi (2006), Selected Works of Hai Zi (2006), and Poetry of Hai Zi (2007).

YE CHUN is the author of one book of poetry, Travel over Water (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2005). She holds an MA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and an MFA from the University of Virginia. Her poems and translations have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, Indiana Review, New Letters, Poetry International, Subtropics, and others.