* Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, translator, editor and musician. Her 2023 novel Dear Chysanthemums, was longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence for Fiction, and featured or reviewed in the New York Times Book Review, Publishers Weekly, Asian Review of Books, and other publications. * This is the fourth Zephyr book Sze-Lorrain has translated; an earlier one, I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust , by Yu Xiang was long-listed for the 2014 PEN Poetry in Translation Award. * Afterword by Bei Dao, one of the most influential Chinese poets of our time. * Sze-Lorrain's previous translations for Zephyr were reviewed in the Asian Review of Books, Poetry London, South China Morning Post, Words Without Borders, Switchback, Asymptote, Rain Taxi, Los Angeles Review, Asian Cha, Lantern Review, Savvy Verse and Wit, Cutbank, TimeOut Beijing, Off the Coast, and several other publications. * This is the final title in Zephyr's unique "Jintian Series of Contemporary Chinese Poetry," which, since 2010, has published some of the most prominent Chinese poets of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in beautifully-designed volumes featuring Chinese and English texts on facing pages, translator introductions, notes to the poems, and French flaps. Most of the poets are or were associated with the literary journal, Jintian (Today), which was started in 1978 by Bei Dao and Mang Ke, censored in 1980, and revived in the 1990s. * Zephyr's Chinese titles have won or been short-listed for the Sarah Maguire Prize (UK), the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award, the Northern California Book Award, the Patrick D.

Hanan Translation Prize, the National Translation Award, the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and the PEN Poetry in Translation Award. * Sze-Lorrain has been a frequent visitor to the US, with readings in bookstores and universities in New York, Philadelphia, Montana, Massachusetts, Vermont, and elsewhere.