麦芒 Mai Mang (Yibing Huang)

Mai Mang 麦芒 (Yibing Huang) established himself as a poet in the 1980s and received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Beijing University. He moved to the United States in 1993 and earned a second Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001. He is currently Associate Professor of Chinese and Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection at Connecticut College.

Mai Mang has published widely on contemporary Chinese literature and art. He is the author of two books of poetry, Stone Turtle: Poems 1987–2000 (2005) and Approaching Blindness (2005); and author of Contemporary Chinese Literature: From the Cultural Revolution to the Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). He has also curated a series of contemporary Chinese art exhibitions. In 2009, he served as a juror for the 2010 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and nominated Chinese poet Duo Duo, who became the first Chinese author to win the prestigious prize. In 2012, he won the 20th Rou Gang Poetry Prize in China.