

Yuan Changming, 8-time Pushcart nominee and author of 5 chapbooks (including Kingship [2015] and the Origin of Letters[2015]), is the world's most widely published poetry creator who speaks Chinese but writes English. Growing up in a remote village, Yuan began to learn English at 19, and published several monographs on translation before moving to Canada as an international student. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently co-edits Poetry Pacific and runs PP Press with Allen Qing Yuan in Vancouver. Since mid-2005, Changming has had poetry appearing in 1049 literary publications across 34 countries, including Asia Literary Review, Best Canadian Poetry (2009,12,14), BestNewPoemsOnline, London Magazine and Threepenny Review.