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Biography

Yuan Changming, time Pushcart nominee and multiple poetry award winner, is probably the world's most widely published contemporary poetry author who speaks Mandarin but writes in English.

Growing up in an isolated village, Yuan started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age nineteen and authored several monographs on translation before leaving China. With a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan, Yuan lives in Vancouver, where he edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan at .

Since mid, Yuan has had poetry appearing in nearly 2, literary outlets, across 48 countries, which include Best Canadian Poetry (, , ), the Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (), BestNewPoemsOnline & Poetry Daily. Recently, Yuan was nominated & served on the Jury for Canada’s National Magazine Awards (poetry category).

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