Jeanne Larsen is the author of three collections of poetry: What Penelope Chooses, winner of the 2017 Cider Press Review Book Award (forthcoming January 2019), Why We Make Gardens (Mayapple Press, 2010), and James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita (University Press of Virginia, 1979). Larsen is the author of two literary translations, Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s Poems from Tang China (BOA Editions Ltd., 2005) and Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao (Princeton University Press, 1987). She has published an e-novel, Sally Paradiso (Brown Fedora Books, 2009), and three print novels from Henry Holt & Company: Manchu Palaces (1996), Bronze Mirror (1991), and Silk Road (1989). Larsen teaches in the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University.