Biography

杨键， 1967年生于安徽繁昌县桃冲矿。当过十三年工人。信仰佛教，并研究中国传统文化。1980年代中后期开始诗歌写作。著有诗集《暮晚》（2003 河北教育出版社，被媒体评为年度十大好书之一）、《古桥头》（2007 上海文化出版社）、《惭愧》（2009 台湾唐山出版社）。曾获第一届刘丽安诗歌奖(1995)、第九届柔刚诗歌奖(2000)、首届宇龙诗歌奖(2006)，2008年获第六届华语传媒文学大奖年度诗人奖。2008年3月，深圳晶报举办“诗歌人间·杨键诗集《古桥头》研讨会”，并以六个整版做相关报道。2009年开始创作水墨画。现居住于安徽马鞍山。

Born in Anhui Province in 1967, YANG JIAN worked as a factory laborer for thirteen years. A practising Buddhist and scholar of Chinese traditional culture, he began writing poetry during the mid-80s. Laureate of the 1st Yiu Li’an Poetry Award (1995), the 9th Rougang Poetry Award (2000), the 1st Yulong Poetry Award (2006), and the prestigious Chinese Media Literature Award (2008), his books of poetry include Dusk (2003), which was rated as one of the best ten books of the year; Old Bridge (2007) and Remorse (2009). Yang Jian also paints with ink and brush. He now lives in Ma’anshan, Anhui.

YE CHUN (叶春) is the author of a book of poetry, Travel over Water (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2005), and a novel in Chinese, Peach Tree in the Sea (《海上的桃树》, The People’s Literature Publishing House, 2011). With Fiona Sze-Lorrain, she has recently completed a book of translations of Hai Zi’s work, Wheat Has Ripened (forthcoming, Tupelo Press, 2012). Also a visual artist, she currently lives in Virginia.

PAUL B. ROTH lives in the village of Fayetteville in upstate New York, where he edits and publishes The Bitter Oleander: A Magazine of Contemporary International Poetry and Short Fiction. He is also the publisher of the award-winning Bitter Oleander Press (BOP), which is committed — for over the past thirty-five years — to featuring several books of imaginative poetry each year. Poetry titles that he has authored include Half-Said (Bitter Oleander Press, 1976), Nothing Out There (Vida, 1996), Fields Below Zero (Cypress Books, 2002), Cadenzas by Needlelight (Cypress Books, 2006) and Words the Interrupted Speak (March Street Press, 2011.)