Ya Lijuan

A female poet and critic. Member of the Chinese Writers Association and a director of the Shanghai Writers Association. She has published four poetry collections: Time with Suffixes (2025), Fish that Can Think (2021), The Endless River (2020), and The Unfinished Journey (2019), as well as a collection of critical essays Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Poets (2025). She has also authored and published over 10 historical and cultural books as a scholar of literature and a veteran media professional. She began to publish her works in 1985. Her poems, interviews with poets and poetry critiques have been published in literary magazines such as “Writer”, “Poetry Magazine”, “Star Poetry Journal”, “Contemporary Poetry”, “Poetry Selection”, “Poetry Tide”, “Yangtze River Poetry Journal”, “New Literature Review” and “Ethnic Literature”. Her poetry works have been included in “China’s Outstanding Poetry of the Year”, “Selected Chinese Poetry”, “Selected Poems of Chinese Female Poets”, “Annual Collection of Chinese Minority Poetry” and other publications. Time with Suffixes won the Outstanding Poetry Collection Award of the Fifth China Annual New Poetry Award, Fish that Can Think received the Outstanding Work Award from the Shanghai Writers Association, and The Unfinished Journey received literary and artistic funding from the Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation. After its publication, Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Poets received a great response from the public and was hailed as a “phenomenal” work that combines academic and historical values. This work is an extremely valuable historical document and an important foundational literature for studying the creative achievements of contemporary Chinese poets.