Ye Chun is the author of Lantern Puzzle (forthcoming from Tupelo Press), which received the 2011 Tupelo Press First / Second Book Award; a translation of Hai Zi’s poetry, Wheat Has Ripened (forthcoming from Tupelo Press); Travel Over Water (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2005); and a novel in Chinese, Peach Tree in the Sea (People’s Literature Publishing House, 2010). She is a PhD candidate and writing instructor at the University of Missouri–Columbia.  

Photo by Shawn Flanagan