These are unusual times. These poets are tale-tellers of their world. (All rights reserved. 2026)
Wang, Meifu 王美富Meifu Wang founded and edits 21st Century Chinese Poetry and serves as its chief translator. Born in Taiwan, she earned a B.A. in foreign languages and literature from National Taiwan University, followed by graduate degrees in atmospheric science (UC Davis) and transport system design (Purdue), working in those fields in Alaska and Washington, D.C. Her own poetry has appeared in Chinese literary journals, a Seattle-area newspaper, and Denver Quarterly. She received a Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship in Chinese poetry translation for a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and divides her time between London and Bainbridge Island, near Seattle.
王美富，出生於台灣，現任《廿一世纪中国诗歌》主編兼翻譯。台灣大學外文系學士，加州大學氣象學碩士，普渡大學交通工程碩士。曾任世界銀行交通專家，美國交通部工程師。詩歌散見於美國與中國文學刊物。王美富獲得2013年亨利盧斯基金會的讚助以中國詩歌翻譯家的身份前往美國佛蒙特藝術協作中心進行交流。王美富定居於倫敦，全心投入文學。
Read Meifu's poems: Go to Meifu's Poems
Michael Truman Soper 苏浪禹Born in Washington, D.C. in 1946, Michael Soper was the city’s last hot-metal apprentice typesetter before turning to word processing for Chinese character fonts. After the *Washington Star* closed in 1981, he returned to college for a business degree with a computing minor, then worked for the U.S. government as a printer, publications systems manager, editor, and contracting specialist. He has translated Chinese poetry for nearly thirty years and has authored more than twenty books, most of them poetry.
Michael has authored more than twenty books, most of which are poetry.
美国华盛顿市人，曾任报社编辑，潜水艇水手，美国政府行政主管。对中国文字和诗歌有浓厚兴趣。他的著作包括四本个人诗集。
Guy Hibbert 盖伊· 希伯特 Guy Hibbert is a British television and film screenwriter and four-time BAFTA winner, born in Oxford. He wrote *Five Minutes of Heaven* (2009), which premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival and won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. His script for Eye In The Sky won Best Screenplay at Evening Standard British Film Awards 2017. Hibbert started his writing career as a playwright. His play On The Edge was the winner of the John Whiting Award in 1985. He lives in London.
盖伊·希伯特是英国电视电影编剧家与制作人, 获得四项英国电影学院奖电视大奖（BAFTA Awards)。他撰写的电影《天堂五分钟》在第25届日舞影展电影节首映，并获得了世界电影编剧奖；《天空之眼》获伦敦晚旗报最佳编剧奖。 盖伊定居于伦敦。
Zhang Fanxiu 张凡修
**Editor, China** b. 1958
Zhang Fanxiu was born in Yutian, Hebei Province, and published his first poem at seventeen. He stopped writing from the late 1980s to 2005 to farm and support his family, then resumed after relocating to Liaoning in 2007, producing poems rooted in rural and agricultural life. In 2010, *Poetry Journal* (Beijing) named him one of China’s “ten great farmer poets.” He helped to select poems for issues seven through thirteen of 21st Century Chinese Poetry and has published three poetry collections, including Writings from the Moors (丘陵书), The Spirit of the Earth (地气), and Only the Earth (止于土).
张凡修，1958年生，河北玉田人，中国作协会员。1975年高中毕业后在家乡玉田县务农。诗歌刊发于《诗刊》等诸多刊物，着有诗集《地气》等三部。 2010年，被《诗刊》社、《星星》诗刊社评为中国十大农民诗人。张凡修先生参与《廿一世纪中国诗歌》第七到第十三辑的选稿工作。
Zhang Fanxiu's poems can be read here: Gaze, Push and Squeeze, and If At All Possible.
Peter Micic 彼得 Peter Micic is a translator, poet, tea ambassador, musician, and independent scholar based in Taipei. Before Taiwan, he spent five years in Yunnan trekking tea mountains while writing and translating. His translations, articles, and book reviews have appeared in international refereed journals. He holds a Ph.D. in modern Chinese music history from Monash University, Melbourne.
澳大利亚墨尔本人，音乐家， 通晓多种语言，历史家，作家， 诗人，茶博士，蒙纳西大学语言学学士， 音乐硕士， 音乐历史学博士。
Johan Ramaekers 哈马克 Johan Ramaekers is a Belgian lyricist, poet, and polyglot, born in Tongeren. He studied German philology at Ghent University, majoring also in Dutch and English, and co-founded the literary magazine *Parlando Furioso* (“Speaking Furiously”). His songwriting has charted in the Netherlands and Belgium. Ramaekers is also a registered psychiatric nurse specializing in gerontology and dementia, and lives in Ghent.
比利时根特城人，诗人，歌词作家，通晓多种语言，大学主修德语语文学，作品进入荷兰以及比利时现代音乐排行榜。
