Translator Bio:
Jonathan Stalling is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma specializing in East-West Poetics, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies. He is a founding editor of Chinese Literature Today magazine and book series (University of Oklahoma Press) and the Curator of the Chinese Literature Translation Archive and the founding director of the MAE Poetry Reading Series. His books include Poetics of Emptiness (Fordham University Press), Grotto Heaven (Chax Press), Yingelishi (Counterpath Press), Winter Sun: The Poetry of Shi Zhi (Oklahoma University Press), and he is an editor of The Chinese Character as a Medium for Poetry (Fordham UP). His book Lost Wax is forthcoming from TinFish Press. His TEDx talk introducing his Sinographic English project can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7de8ENdf1yU