Jeffrey Yang

Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Hey, Marfa, Vanishing-Line, and An Aquarium (Winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate, Open Up, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies, Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile, and Su Shi’s East Slope. He is also the editor of the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas and Time of Grief, as well as a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry and prose, The Sea Is a Continual Miracle. Yang is Editor-at-Large at New Directions and has been with the press since 2000.