YAN AN is a most famous poet in contemporary China, author of fourteen poetry books, including Rock Arrangement, which has won him The Sixth Lu Xun Literary Prize, one of China’s top four literary prizes. As the winner of various national awards and prizes, he is also a Vice President of Shaanxi Writers Association, the head and Executive Editor-in-Chief of the literary journal Yan River, one of the oldest and most famous literary journals in Northwestern China. His poetry book, A Naturalist’s Manor, translated by Chen Du and Xisheng Chen, was published by Chax Press.

ALANI ROSA HICKS-BARTLETT is a writer, translator, and Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Brown University. In terms of her creative work, recent poems and translations have appeared in The Stillwater Review, IthacaLit, Gathering Storm, Broad River Review, The Fourth River, and Mantis, among others. She is committed to bringing the voices of historically and socially marginalized people to the fore; as such, many of her translations prioritize women, diasporic writers, LGBTQIA+, Latinx, and premodern writers. Alani enjoys translating from various Romance Languages, as well from German and Yiddish, to English. Alani holds BAs in French, Spanish, and Italian, from Bryn Mawr College, and attended graduate programs at Bryn Mawr, Middlebury College, and the University of California, Berkeley.