Hai Zi is the pen name of the Chinese poet Zha Haisheng. One of the most famous poets in Mainland China following the Cultural Revolution, he wrote many poems and modern dramas during his short career, and came to represent the new poetry of China that emerged in the late-1980s. At the age of 25, he committed suicide on a railway with four books in his hands.

Ye Chun / 叶春 is a bilingual Chinese American writer and literary translator. She received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. She is the author of Straw Dogs of the Universe and Hao (both Catapult),  a novel in Chinese,海上的桃树 (People’s Literature Publishing House), and two books of poetry, Travel Over Water (The Bitter Oleander Press) and Lantern Puzzle (Tupelo Press).