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Yu Yoyo

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Yu Yoyo:  (b.1990), in Sichuan, China.  She began writing poetry in 2004, at the age of 14.  She has published volumes of poetry, including Seven Years, I am Bait, The Unable Person, Half a Person, Against the Body, My Tenantless Body, and A Cat is a Cloud.  Her poems have been translated into English, Korean, Russian, French, Japanese, and Swedish.  She lives now in Chengdu.

Zhai Yongming

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Zhai Yongming:  born in Chengdu, Sichuan.  Graduated from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, she used to work in an institute of physics.  Her major works of poetry collections include Women, What is Called All, Finally It Makes Me Fail, Fourteen Plain Songs, Line Spacing, Following Huang Gong Wang, and Visiting Fuchun Mountains.

Xiang Yixian

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Xiang Yixian:  (b.1963), poet and professor in the History and Culture Department at Sichuan University.  Winner of the Education Bureau’s 8th Humanities and Society Prize, Natong International Confucianism Prize, Special Mention Award winner at the 1st National Search for Poets Prize, Tianduo (Heaven’s Bell) Prize winner, Chengdu Commercial Newspaper Annual Poetry Prize winner, and Li Po Cup Poetry Prize.