Wang Ping's remarkable history has taken her from farm worker during the Cultural Revolution to an international reputation as a teacher and writer. In her spare time, she climbs mountains and rows the Mississippi.

Born in Shanghai and confined to a farm during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Ping eventually came to the US, earned a doctorate at New York University, and has had a busy career of writing, teaching, and activisim. She is the author of MY NAME IS IMMIGRANT (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) and the editor of NEW GENERATION: POEMS FROM CHINA TODAY (Hanging Loose Press, 1999).