Un Sio San is a Chinese poet and writer from

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

. She has published six collections of poetry, and her work has won several honors, including the inaugural New Star–People's Literature Prize of Poetry in China, and the Henry Luce Foundation Chinese Poetry Fellowship.

Biography

Un Sio San was born in Macau. She completed her undergraduate education at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

, studying Chinese Language and Art (film and television production), and her master's degree in East Asian and Pacific Asia studies at

Toronto University The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

Career

Un Sio San has published six collections of poetry: ''Exile in the Blossom Time'', ''Wonderland'', ''Evolution of Love'', ''Here'', ''Naked Picnic'', and ''Bitter Lotus Seed''. She has also published a book of essays titled ''Boisterous Islands''. ''Naked Picnic'' is a collection of poems composed at International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong 2013, and published bilingually, in Chinese and English. She was also the lyricist who composed for Macau's first original indoor opera, ''A Fragrant Dream''. Her work has won several awards, including the inaugural New Star–People's Literature Prize of Poetry in China, America's Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship for Chinese Poetry, and the Haizi Poetry Prize. She has also been an artist-in-residence at

Vermont Studio Center The Vermont Studio Center (VSC) is a non-profit arts organization located in the town of Johnson, Vermont. It conducts the largest fine arts and writing residency program in the United States, with a significant population of international artis ...

and the Arctic Circle Programme. She also contributes to newspapers in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. She has spoken about the challenges of publishing poetry in Macau, and about the access that Macanese writers have to other Chinese publishers, including those in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan.

Bibliography

* (2008) ''Exile in the Blossom Time'' (Hong Kong: Kubrick) * (2011) ''Wonderland'' (Taipei: Vista Publishing) * (2011) ''Here'' (Macao: ASM). * (2014) ''Naked Picnic'' (Columbia University Press) * ''Bitter Lotus Seed'' * ''Evolution of Love'' * (2020) ''Boisterous Islands''

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* Translated from the Chinese by Bonnie Huie. {{Authority control Chinese women poets 21st-century Chinese writers 21st-century Chinese poets 21st-century Chinese women writers Macanese people Macau writers Peking University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people University of Toronto alumni