Zhang Zhihao [张执浩] is one of the most accomplished contemporary Chinese poets. Author of ten poetry collections as well as several books of fiction and essay collections, he has won almost all the prestigious poetry awards in China, including the Luxun Literary Prize for poetry, which is the Chinese equivalent to the Pulitzer poetry prize. Currently, he is editor-in-chief of Chinese Poetry, a quarterly poetry magazine in Wuhan, China.

Yuemin He is an author, translator, and educator. She has written on Asian American literature, Buddhist American literature, East Asian literature and visual art, composition pedagogy, and translation studies. Her essays appear in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature (SUNY), Religion and the Arts (Boston College), Teaching Asian North American Texts (MLA), and many more. Her poetry translations have been anthologized in Oxford Anthology of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (2nd ed.) and published in more than thirty literary magazines and journals, including The Cincinnati Review, Metamorphoses, and The Massachusetts Review. Her first book of poetry translations, I’ve Seen the Yellow Crane, was just published by the Foreign Languages Press. Currently she is an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) in Annandale, Virginia. Email her at yhe@nvcc.edu or find her on Twitter @Heber12321.