Biography

胡续冬，诗人、评论家、翻译家和电视主持人，1974年生于湖北。他在北京大学先后学习中国文学和西班牙语文学，并于2001年获博士学位。 2003-2004年任教于巴西利亚大学，2008年参加了爱荷华大学的国际写作计划，现任北京大学外国语学院副教授。他出版的作品内容广泛，涉及诗歌， 电影，美食，拉丁美洲文化和日常生活。

HU XUDONG, poet, critic, translator and TV host, was born in 1974 in Hubei. Hu studied Chinese, Spanish and Latin American literatures at Beijing University, and received his PhD in 2001. He taught at Universidade de Brasília from 2003-2004 as a visiting Chinese teacher, and was a fellow in the International Writers Program at Iowa University in 2008. Now an associate professor at the World Literature Center of Beijing University, he has published several books of essays on diverse topics such as poetry, film, food, Latin American culture, and his daily life.

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.