Biography

杨子，1963年生于安徽，诗人、翻译家。1984年大学毕业后去新疆，90年代初创办民 刊《大鸟》。现在广州某报社供职。他的诗歌创作始于1980年代中期，迄今已发表大 量诗歌作品，有诗集《灰眼睛》(自编)、《胭脂》(海风出版社)、同时翻译了为数众多的 英美和其他国家的诗歌，如《曼德尔施塔姆诗选》、《佩索阿诗选》等。2008年获华 语文学传媒奖“年度诗人”提名。

YANG ZI (1963– ), a proclaimed contemporary Chinese poet, is the author of a dozen books including Border Fast Train (1994), Gray Eyes (2000), and Rouge (2007). After his university studies in Chinese literature, he lived in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for nine years and co-founded the literary journal, Big Bird. In 1990, he was appointed Vice Alderman of Tahaqi Village. Since 1993, he has lived in the southern coastal city, Guangzhou and now works as the associate chief editor of the Nanfang People Weekly. Also known as a dedicated poetry translator, he has introduced the works of Osip Mandelshtam, Paul Celan, Fernando Pessoa, Gary Snyder, Charles Simic and other Western poets to Chinese readers.

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.

MELISSA TUCKEY is the author of the chapbook Rope as Witness (Pudding House Press, 2007). Her poems have been published in Beloit Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poet Lore, Verse Daily and other places. Co-founder of Split This Rock Poetry Festival in Washington, D.C., she is a recent recipient of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown winter fellowship.

FIONA SZE-LORRAIN (Greta Aart) is an editor of Cerise Press.