Biography

李建春，诗人，1970年生于湖北大冶，1992年毕业于武汉大学汉语言文学系。现任教于湖北美术学院美术学系。1997年获第三届刘丽安诗歌奖，2006年获首届宇龙诗歌奖。李建春的诗，情感充沛，富于沉思，于清澈中见复杂，形式多样；他的长诗和组诗，往往能将精神的探索推进到极致。

Chinese poet LI JIANCHUN was born in Daye, Hubei Province in 1970. He graduated from Wuhan University in 1992 with a major in literature. Currently, he teaches at Hubei Institute of Fine Arts. His honors include the Liu Li’an Poetry Prize (1997) and the Yulong Poetry Prize (2006).

DIANA SHI‘s co-translations of contemporary Chinese poetry have been published in various North American journals such as Circumference, Words Without Borders, and Grain. Her Chinese translations of American poetry have appeared in Foreign Literature, Chinese-Western Poetry, and elsewhere. Winner of The Dawson Lee Memorial Prize, she currently lives in Hong Kong.

GEORGE O’CONNELL, recipient of numerous awards for his poetry, has taught creative writing and literature in the U.S. and China, including Peking University as Fulbright professor. He and Shi co-edited/co-translated the 2008 Atlanta Review China Edition, and their work appears widely in Chinese and western publications such as Push Open the Window from Copper Canyon and Chutzpah in Beijing. They are currently completing Wang Jiaxin’s Darkening Mirror: New & Selected Poems for U.S. publication.