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Tao Lee

Xiao Kaiyu
Xiao Kaiyu was born in 1960 in Zhongjiang, Sichuan, China. He was formally trained in traditional Chinese medicine, and worked as a doctor in Zhongjiang from 1980-1986. His poetry was first published in literary journals in the mid-1980’s and within a few years he won The Avant-Garde Poetry Award (1988). In 1989, he founded two underground poetry magazines The Nineties and against. Since then he has also founded the journals of talk and chat, Northern and Southern and Commentaries of Chinese Poetry. He has been a member of the Liu Linan Poetry Award jury since 1995. Three collections of poetry, Wild Pleasures at the Zoo, The Sweetness of Learning and Poems from Xiao Kaiyu were published in 1997, 2000 and 2004 respectively, in Beijing. Im Regen geschrieben was published in 2003, Frauenfeld. Xiao Kaiyu’s Works will be published this year, 2007, in Kaifeng. In 1997 he moved to Berlin. In 2005 he went back to Shanghai and now works as a Chinese literature professor in He Nan University, Kaifeng.

Zhang Er
Is the author of Seen, Unseen, published in 1999 by Xinghai Press in the People's Republic of China. She has had three chapbooks of poetry translated into English and published in the United States: Winter Garden (Goats & Compasses), Verses on Bird (Jensen Daniels), and The Autumn of Gu Yao (Spuyten Duyvil). Her poems have been published widely in journals in the U.S. and Taiwan. Originally from Beijing, she currently lives in New York City.

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