Ming Di (penname of Mindy Zhang) was born in Wuhan, a river city in central China. With BA in English and MA in Linguistics she pursued doctoral studies at Boston University before moving to California where she writes in Chinese and publishes in China and Taiwan. Author of six collections in Chinese and editor of Poetry East West, a bilingual literary journal, she also translates poetry and literary essays from English to Chinese with two volumes published and two forthcoming.

Tony Barnstone is The Albert Upton Professor of English at Whittier College and the author of twelve books including Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki, winner of the John Ciardi Prize in Poetry; The Golem of Los Angeles, winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry, etc. He earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and is also a distinguished translator of Chinese poetry and literary essays, including The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry, Laughing Lost in the Mountains: Poems of Wang Wei, and Chinese Erotic Poems.

Neil Aitken is the author of The Lost Country of Sight (winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry), the founding editor of Boxcar Poetry Review, and a contributing editor for Poetry East West. A Canadian of Chinese and Scottish descent, he presently lives in Los Angeles where he is completing a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.

Afaa Michael Weaver (Michael S. Weaver) studied translation at Brown University where in 1987 he completed the MFA program. He began studying Mandarin formally in 2002 and completed the intermediate level course at Taipei Language Institute in 2004-05. His 12th book of poetry will be published by U of Pittsburgh Press in 2012. He holds an endowed chair at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Katie Farris is the author of BOYSGIRLS and co-translator of Polina Barskova's This Lamentable City. Her work has appeared in various journals. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University.

Sylvia Burn is from New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a student of Literature and Creative Writing at Whittier College in California. She hopes to pursue a career in writing, editing, and translation in the future.