Translators
Chen Chienmin 陳建民(1954-) is currently a professor of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Asia University in Taichung, Taiwan. Before that, he had been teaching in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chung Hsing University for 27 years. He won Liang Shi-Qui Literary Award: Translation Contest in Verse, 1992 and Liang Shi-Qui Literary Award: Creative Writing Contest in Prose, 1990. As to the translation of the poems by Chien Chengchen in this context, it is worth noticing that the poet's use of conjunctions in the original poems is very limited in order to reflect both his investment for the beauty of Chinese language and his featured way of philosophical, aesthetic meditation through "images"; therefore, the translation of them struggles to reveal as such and, particularly, show the rhythm of the poet's voice, the flow of his consciousness, and, above all, his long chain of images.
–Chen Chienmin
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Dongqiao Li has a M.S. in Computer Science and a M.A. in Physics, both from Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison. He also enjoys oil painting and lithography, and his ideal job is the one Jack Nicholson's character undertook in The Shining (before he went crazy). Since last fall he has been studying poetry at Brown's MFA program.
李東喬擁有美國威斯康星大學計算機和物理碩士學位。他還喜歡油畫和石版畫。他的理想是找到一份傑克尼科森在電影靈光初現中扮演的角色所有的工作（在他發瘋之前）。自從去年秋天他在布朗大學攻讀詩歌藝術碩士學位。
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~ Photo by Peter Everard-Smith
Simon Patton was born in Melbourne in 1961, and moved to Brisbane in 1997. He currently works as a literary translator specializing in contemporary Chinese poetry. To earn a living, he teaches Chinese language and translation at the University of Queensland. From 2002 to 2009, he co-edited the China domain of Poetry International Web with the Chinese poet Yu Jian 于坚. A selection of poems by the contemporary poet Yi Sha 伊沙 co-translated with Tao Naikan was published by Bloodaxe in 2008.
Simon Patton 1961年生于澳大利亚墨尔本市，1997 年搬到澳洲北部的布里斯班市。目前主要从事文学翻译工作，以中国当代诗歌为主，同时为了谋生也在昆士兰大学语言与比较文化学院教汉语及汉英翻译。2002-2009年，他同中国当代诗人于坚合作负责一个荷兰国际诗歌网站中关于中国诗歌内容的编辑工作。2008年，他与学者及文学翻译家陶乃侃共同翻译的《俄死诗人！伊沙英文诗选》由英国 Bloodaxe（血钺）出版社出版了。
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Eleanor Goodman writes fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, and translates from Chinese. She has lived in Shanghai and Beijing, and currently resides in Boston. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as PN Review, Fiction, Pleiades, New Delta Review, Ibbetson Street, Perihelion, The Pedestal Magazine, and on The Best American Poetry and The Guardian websites. Her own website can be found at www.eleanorgoodman.com.
顾爱玲（Eleanor Goodman），美国当代诗人，兼从事小说与散文的创作。她对翻译中国文学有非常强烈的兴趣，译有唐代诗人王维和若干当代诗人的作品。她在北京,上海生活过,现居住于波士顿. 她的作品曾发表于PN Review, Fiction, Pleiades, New Delta Review, Perihelion, The Pedestal Magazine, The Best American Poetry website, The Guardian 等杂志。她的网站是 www.eleanorgoodman.com.
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Ao Wang, born in 1976 in China. Wang received his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University in 2008 and is currently teaching at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
王敖，1976年出生於中國，2008年畢業於耶魯大學，獲東亞語言文學博士，目前在康州的三一學院教書。
