Ye Chun

Ye Chun (Chinese: 叶春) is a Chinese American writer and literary translator. Her book of poetry, Lantern Puzzle, won the 2011 Berkshire Prize.She received an NEA fellowship in 2015 and a Pushcart Prize for her poem "The Luoyang Poem" in 2017, and a second Pushcart Prize in 2018 for her story, "Milk," which was first published in The Threepenny Review.

She was born in Luoyang, China, and moved to the U.S. in 1999. She received an MA in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. She is an assistant professor at Providence College.

Her novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》(Peach Tree in the Sea) was published by People's Literature Publishing House in 2011. She has translated works by Hai Zi, Yang Jian, Galway Kinnell, and Li-Young Lee. Her collection of translations, Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems by Hai Zi, was shortlisted for the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award.

Poetry

• Lantern Puzzle, Tupelo Press, 2015 ISBN 978-1936797530
• Travel over Water, Bitter Oleander Press, 2005 ISBN 978-0966435863

Fiction

• 《海上的桃树》(Peach Tree in the Sea), 人民文学出版社 / People's Literature Publishing House, 2011 ISBN 978-7020086054

Translation

• Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi, Bitter Oleander Press, 2015 ISBN 978-0986204906
• Long River: Poems by Yang Jian, Tinfish Press, 2018 (co-translator) ISBN 978-0998743882

In Anthologies

• Pushcart Prize XLI, 2017 ISBN 978-1888889826
• Pushcart Prize XLII, 2018 ISBN 978-1888889857
• Wondering the Alphabet, The Bitter Oleander Press, 2017 ISBN 978-0986204999
• 《中国当代女诗人随笔选》(Selected Essays of Contemporary Chinese Woman Poets), 华侨出版社 / Chinese Overseas Publishing House, 2007 ISBN 9787802223172