Poets

Jeffrey Yang is the author of An Aquarium (2008) for which he won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Prize and Vanishing-Line (2011). He is the translator of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (2012) and other Chinese writers.

Yang is also the editor of the anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems (2011) and Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (2013). Since 2000, he has worked as an editor at New Directions.