Jason Sommer is author of four poetry collections, the most recent of which, The Laughter of Adam and Eve, won the Crab Orchard Review Prize. He is a collaborative translator, with Hongling Zhang, of works of fiction from China by Wang Xiaobo—Wang in Love and Bondage—and Tie Ning—The Bathing Women, which was a longlisted finalist for the Man Asian Literary Prize. He has been the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Writer’s Fellowship.