Ye Chun () is a Chinese American writer and literary translator. Her book of poetry, ''Lantern Puzzle'', won the 2011 Berkshire Prize. She received an NEA fellowship in 2015 and a Pushcart Prize for her poem "The Luoyang Poem" in 2017, a second Pushcart Prize in 2018 for her story, "Milk," , and a third in 2020 for her story, "Hao." Her collection of stories, ''Hao'', was published by Catapult in 2021 and was longlisted for 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in fiction.

Life

She was born in

Luoyang Luoyang is a city located in the confluence area of Luo River and Yellow River in the west of Henan province. Governed as a prefecture-level city, it borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang ...

, China, and moved to the U.S. in 1999. She received an MFA in poetry from the

University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad ...

, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...

. She teaches at Providence College. Her novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》(''Peach Tree in the Sea'') was published by

People's Literature Publishing House The People's Literature Publishing House () is a large-scale publishing house in China. It was established in March 1951, and was attached to the (). It is known for scholarly publications, editions of classical Chinese literature, dictionaries, ...

in 2011. She has translated works by

Hai Zi Hai Zi (; March 24, 1964 – March 26, 1989) is the pen name of the Chinese poet Zha Haisheng (). He was one of the most famous poets in Mainland China after the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide by lying on the rail in Shanhaiguan at t ...

, Yang Jian,

Galway Kinnell Galway Mills Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection, ''Selected Poems'' and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright. From 1989 to 1 ...

, and

Li-Young Lee Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet. He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His maternal great-grandfather was Yuan Shikai, China's first Republican President, who attempted ...

. Her collection of translations, ''Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems by Hai Zi'', was shortlisted for the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award.

Works

Poetry * ''Lantern Puzzle'', Tupelo Press, 2015 * ''Travel over Water'', Bitter Oleander Press, 2005 Fiction * ''Hao'', Catapult, 2021 * 《海上的桃树》(''Peach Tree in the Sea''), 人民文学出版社 / People's Literature Publishing House, 2011 Translation * ''Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi'', Bitter Oleander Press, 2015 * ''Long River: Poems by Yang Jian'', Tinfish Press, 2018 (co-translator)

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