Xue Di Biography

Xue Di was born in Beijing in 1957.  He is the author of three volumes of collected works and one book of criticism on contemporary Chinese poetry in Chinese.  In English translation, he has published two full length books, An Ordinary Day (Alice James Books, 2002) and Heart Into Soil (Burning Deck & Lost Roads, 1998), and three chapbooks, Forgive (Blue Light Press, 2004), Circumstances (Duration Press, 2000) and Flames (paradigm press, 1995; second edition, 2000).  His work has appeared in numerous American journals and anthologies and has been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Japanese.  Since shortly after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, he has been a fellow in Brown University’s Freedom to Write Program in Providence, Rhode Island.  Xue Di is a two-time recipient of the Hellman/Hammett Award, sponsored by Human Rights Watch.