Green Mountain

Fiona Sze-Lorrain's recent poetry collection is The Ruined Elegance (Princeton, 2016). Also a zheng harpist and translator, she has been a Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. Christopher Merrill has authored twelve books of poetry and nonfiction, including Self-Portrait with Dogwood (Trinity, 2017). He directs the IWP at the University of Iowa.

Lauded as one of the most important contemporary Chinese poets, Yang Jian was born in Anhui province in 1967. He paints in ink and leads a Buddhist life in Ma'anshan.