Xu Fang

Born in Shanghai in 1962, began publishing in 1982. She is one of the founders of Xia Yu Poetry Club of East China Normal University and used to be the editor-in-chief and instructor of Xia Yu Poetry Club. She joined the Shanghai Writers’ Association in 1984 and the Chinese Writers’ Association in 2000, currently working as a senior editor at the “Jiefang Daily” and chief editor of the show of “Interview with Xu Fang”. She has published more than ten volumes of works such as “Selected Poems of Xu Fang”. Some of her poems have been selected into nearly 100 anthologies and dictionaries, including “The Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese New Poetry”, “The Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetesses”, “The Anthology of Contemporary College Students in China”, “A Selection of Contemporary Campus Poems in China”, “ Selected Poems of the Academy”, “The Anthology of the Third Generation of Chinese Poets’ Exploring Poems”, “Twenty-five Years of Obscure Poetry”, “20 Years of Selected Works of New Period Literature”, “Anthology of the Poetry Magazine on the 60th Anniversary of its Publication”, “Annual Selection of Chinese Poetry”, “The Best Chinese Poetry in the 21st Century, 2000–2011”, “The Anthology of Chinese Poetry 2011”, “Selected Chinese Poetry in 2012”, “Chinese Poetry List”, “China’s Best Poetry in the 21st Century”.The Shanghai Writers’ Association once held a seminar on Xu Fang’s poetry. She won the award of the first “Poet of the Year” (2011). Her collection of essays “She Said: Hello” won the “Fifth National Bing Xin Prose Award”. In 2015, she gave a lecture on Chinese new poetry at Turin University, Italy. She has won “The China News Award” and “The Shanghai News Award” many times. There are about forty monographs on the creation of her poetry and prose, part of which have been translated into foreign languages.