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Ye Chun

Biography

Ye Chun

Ye Chun (surname: Ye) is a bilingual Chinese American writer and literary translator. She has published two books of poetry, TRAVEL OVER WATER and LANTERN PUZZLE, a novel in Chinese,《海上的桃树》(PEACH TREE IN THE SEA), and three volumes of translations. A recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award and three Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College and lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Ye Chun

Books by Ye Chun

by Ye Chun - Fiction, Short Stories

By turns reflective and visceral, the stories in HAO examine the ways in which women can be silenced as they grapple with sexism and racism, and how they find their own language to define their experience. In “Gold Mountain,” a young mother hides above a ransacked store during the San Francisco anti-Chinese riot of 1877. In “A Drawer,” an illiterate mother invents a language through drawing. And in “Stars,” a graduate student loses her ability to speak after a stroke.