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).