Biography

颜峻, 1973年生于兰州。 1990年代后期来到北京, 从事乐评的写作, 组织音乐演出, 并创建地下文学艺术厂牌 “Subjam”。 作为一位声音艺术家, 颜峻在环境音乐、喉音演唱和现场即兴表演方面都做过探索, 他的诗歌在北京的地下艺术圈享有盛誉。

YAN JUN was born in 1973 in Lanzhou. In the late 1990s, he moved to Beijing where he wrote essays on music for newspapers and magazines, organized music shows, and established his own underground art and literature label “Subjam.” A sound artist who actively experiments with ambient music, throat singing and creative live performances, his poetry gains recognition in Beijing underground art circles.

ELEANOR GOODMAN writes fiction, poetry, and literary criticism, as well as translates from the Chinese. She has lived and worked in Shanghai and Beijing. She received her Masters in Creative Writing from Boston University in 2003. Her work has appeared widely in journals such as Fiction, PN Review, New Delta Review, Ibbetson Street, Perihelion, and The Pedestal Magazine, and on The Best American Poetry (online). Visit her website at www.eleanorgoodman.com.

AO WANG received his PhD in Chinese Literature from Yale University in 2008, and is currently a visiting professor at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Quatrains and the Romance (2007), winner of the Anne Kao Poetry Prize. He also translates contemporary Chinese poetry and English poetry (including Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium), and works as a translator for major literary critics in both languages.