Biography

石可, 诗人、演员、剧作家, 1978年生于青海西宁. 北京大学光华管理学院学士、电影研究硕士。 石可多年来致力于实验戏剧, 曾创办”微”剧团, 现为布里斯托大学戏剧系博士生、阿诺芬尼中心的艺术家。

Born in 1978 in Xining, Qinghai Province, SHI KE is a poet, actor, playwright and performance artist. He received a BA in business management and an MA in film studies from Beijing University. Shi has worked in experimental theatre, and founded “Wei,” an independent performance group. Currently, he pursues his PhD in the Department of Drama at the University of Bristol, and also serves as an associate artist at Arnolfini, a leading center for performance art in Europe.

ELEANOR GOODMAN writes fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, as well as translates from the Chinese. She has lived and worked in Shanghai and Beijing. She received her Masters in Creative Writing from Boston University in 2003. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as Fiction, PN Review, New Delta Review, Ibbetson Street, Perihelion, and The Pedestal Magazine, and on The Best American Poetry (online). Visit her website at www.eleanorgoodman.com.

AO WANG received his PhD in Chinese Literature from Yale University in 2008, and is currently a visiting professor at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Quatrains and the Romance (2007), winner of the Anne Kao Poetry Prize. He also translates contemporary Chinese poetry and English poetry (including Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium), and works as a translator for major literary critics in both languages.