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Wang Ping

Cover for Fall 2021 Chinese Issue of The Café Review

Wang Ping:  was born in China and came to the United States in 1985.  She is the recipient of NEA, the Bush Artist Fellowship for poetry, the McKnight Fellowship for non-fiction, and many others.  She received her Distinct Immigrant Award in 2014 and Venezuela International Poet of Honor in 2015.  She is the Minnesota Port Laureate, 20212023, appointed by International Beat Poetry Foundation.  She has authored 15 books of poetry and prose, including My Name is Immigrant, poetry, Hang Loose Press 2020 and Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi, AWP Creative non-fiction award, University of Georgia Press 2018.

Liang Ping

Cover for Fall 2021 Chinese Issue of The Café Review

Liang Ping:  born in Chongqing and currently lives in Chengdu. He is the editor-in-chief of The Thatched Cottage and Young Writers, and former editor-in-chief of Hongyan and Stars.  He has published 12 poetry collections, including Genealogy, Winged Ears, Blossom on the Lips, Notes of Time, a prose collection entitled He Says in Sichuan, a collection of poetry criticism The Reading Posture, and a novel Chao Tian Men.