:: Marilyn Chin is the author of The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty, winner of the PEN Josephine Miles Award, and Dwarf Bamboo. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. In the late 1970s she was a translator for the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she cotranslated The Selected Poems of Ai Qing. Her poetry has appeared in The Iowa Review, The Paris Review, and Parnassus. Two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Fulbright Fellowships, a Stegner Fellowship, four Pushcart Prizes, and a Mary Roberts Rinehart Award count among her many honors. Chin is currently on the faculty of the M.F.A. program at San Diego State University. She considers the Pacific Rim her home and San Diego her most recent exile.