A prominent poet in contemporary China, Yan An has published more than twenty books, among which fifteen are poetry collections. The winner of various national awards and prizes, he is also a vice president of the Poetry Institute of China, a vice president of the Shaanxi Writers Association, a member of the National Committee of China Writers Association, a State Council Special Allowance Expert, and the head and executive editor-in-chief of the literary journal Yan River. Chen Du is a voting member of the American Translators Association and an expert member of the Translators Association of China. In the United States and a few other Western countries, she has published, either independently or in cooperation with Xisheng Chen, hundreds of pieces of English translations, poems, and essays in over fifty literary journals, such as The Southern Review and AGNI. Xisheng Chen is a Chinese American ESL grammarian, lexicologist, linguist, translator, and educator. His working history includes adjunct professor at the Departments of English and Social Sciences of Trine University (formerly Tri-State University) in Angola, Indiana. As a translator for four decades, he has published many translations in various fields in newspapers and journals in China and abroad.