Biography

杨小滨，诗人、评论家，1963年生于上海。在上海读书和工作之后，来到美国，并于1996年获得耶鲁大学的博士学位。此后他任教于密西西比大学，教授中国文学，现就职于台湾中研院。诗集:《穿越阳光地带》（获1994年台湾第一本诗集奖）和《景色与情节》。

YANG XIAOBIN, poet and critic, was born in Shanghai in 1963. He attended college and worked in Shanghai before moving to the United States. In 1996, he received a PhD from Yale, and taught Chinese literature at the University of Mississippi. Now a research professor at Academia Sinica in Taipei, his major poetry collections include Chuanyue yangguang didai (Across the Sunlight Zone, 1994), which won in the same year of its publication the Award for the First Book of Collected Poems in Taiwan, and Jingse yu qingjie (Landscapes and Plots, 2008).

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.