Chun Yu

Poet / Translator

Chun Yu, Ph.D. is a poet, graphic novelist, and scientist. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Little Green: Growing Up During the Chinese Cultural Revolution and a historical graphic novel in progress on Mao and Emperor Li Yu. She contributed to the award-winning anthology Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace and Open Doors. Her new poetry collection in English and Chinese has won a SF Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant which merges science, art, and spirituality based on her experiences as an immigrant from an old culture in revolution to a new world with transforming science and technologies. "Chun Yu's poetry creates sense and order that readers young and old, eastern and western, will appreciate," writes Maxine Hong Kingston.