Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of three books of poetry and a chapbook. Her first collection, In Medias Res, won the Norma Farber First Book Award. A collection of Song Dynasty translations, Doubled Radiance: Poetry & Prose of Li Qingzhao, is forthcoming.

Sawako Nakayasu’s books include Mouth: Eats Color, Texture Notes, and a translation of Takashi Hiraide’s For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut which won the 2009 Best Translated Book Award. She has received NEA and PEN fellowships, and her poetry has been translated into several languages.

Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry, Facts for Visitors and Voyager, and a scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry. He is currently an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Chicago.

Neil Aitken is the author of The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize, and the editor of Boxcar Poetry Review. His collaborative translations of Chinese poetry appear in The Book of Cranes: Selected Poems of Zang Di and New Cathay: Contemporary Chinese Poetry, 1990-2012.