About YiSha

 

Yi Sha, male, real name Wu Wenjian, is a Poet, writer, critic, translator, and compiler. He was born in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 1966, and graduated from the department of Chinese language and literature of Beijing Normal University in 1989. He now teaches in the Chinese Institute of Xi'an International Studies University. He has published over 70 written, translated and edited books and won a Chinese poetry grant from the Henry Luce Foundation in USA and more than dozens of poetry awards in China. He was invited to participate in a number of international exchange activities and a writing program,such as the 16th Nässjö International Poetry Festival in Sweden, the 38th Rotterdam International Poetry Festival in Netherlands, the 20thAldeburgh International Poetry Festival in UK, the 50th Struga International Poetry Festival in Macedonia (Struga Poetry Evenings), (the 2nd, the 3rd and the 4th) Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival in China, the second Macao Literary Festival, and the United States of Vermont Creative Writing Center writing program

 

Translated by Sophy Chen 2015-01-24