Ye Chun
Ye Chun is a Chinese American writer and literary translator. Her book of poetry, Lantern Puzzle, won the 2011 Berkshire Prize. She received an NEA fellowship in 2015 and a Pushcart Prize for her poem "The Luoyang Poem" in 2017, and a second Pushcart Prize in 2018 for her story, "Milk," which was first published in The Threepenny Review.Life
She was born in Luoyang, China, and moved to the U.S. in 1999. She received an MA in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. She is an assistant professor at Providence College.
Her novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》 was published by People's Literature Publishing House in 2011. She has translated works by Hai Zi, Yang Jian, Galway Kinnell, and Li-Young Lee. Her collection of translations, Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems by Hai Zi, was shortlisted for the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award.Works
Poetry
- Lantern Puzzle, Tupelo Press, 2015
- Travel over Water, Bitter Oleander Press, 2005
Fiction
- 《海上的桃树》, 人民文学出版社 / People's Literature Publishing House, 2011
Translation
- Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi, Bitter Oleander Press, 2015
- Long River: Poems by Yang Jian, Tinfish Press, 2018
In Anthologies
- Pushcart Prize XLI, 2017
- Pushcart Prize XLII, 2018
- Wondering the Alphabet, The Bitter Oleander Press, 2017
- 《中国当代女诗人随笔选》, 华侨出版社 / Chinese Overseas Publishing House, 2007
