选自《有什么在我心里一过》

Wang Xiaoni was born in Changchun, Jilin, in 1955 and graduated from Jilin University in 1982. She moved to Shenzhen in 1985 where she now makes a living as a writer. She has taught at Hainan University and Shenzhen University. Her first book, A Selection of My Poetry, was published in 1986. She has written books of poetry, short stories, essays, and novels, and has received numerous awards, including the Chinese Literature Media Award in 2004.

Eleanor Goodman is an award-winning translator and author. Her first poetry collection is Nine Dragon Island (Zephyr Press, 2016), and her translations include Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni (Zephyr Press, 2014), Iron Moon: An Anthology of Chinese Workers Poetry (White Wine Press, 2017), and The Roots of Wisdom: Poems by Zang Di (Zephyr Press, 2017). Her newest translation, In the Roar of the Machine: Selected Poems by Zheng Xiaoqiong, is forthcoming in The New York Review of Books poetry series. She is a research associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.