Jami Proctor Xu (translator) is a poet, translator, and artist. She writes in Chinese and English. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona, and currently splits her time between Northern California and China. Her Chinese poetry collections include Shimmers (EMS: Du Shi Series, 2013) and Suddenly Starting to Dance (Yi Press, 2016). Her English chapbook Hummingbird Ignites a Star was published in 2014. Her poems appear frequently in journals and anthologies in China and the U.S. Jami has translated collections by the Chinese poets Jidi Majia and Song Lin. In 2013 she received a Zhujiang Poetry Award for a non-Chinese poet who has made a significant contribution to contemporary Chinese poetry.

Art by Jidi Majia