About this Artist

Jeffrey Yang is the author of four books of poetry: Line and Light; Hey, Marfa (winner of the Southwest Book Award; chosen as a 2014 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times); Vanishing-Line; and An Aquarium (winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s long poem Sidetracks (chosen as a 2024 Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, and The New Yorker) and his autobiography City Gate, Open Up; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies; Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile; and Su Shi’s East Slope. He has edited the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas and Time of Grief; a volume of Walt Whitman’s poetry and prose, The Sea Is a Continual Miracle; an expanded edition of Mary Oppen’s Meaning a Life: An Autobiography, and, with Natasha Wimmer, the anthology of literary translation Some Kind of Beautiful Signal. His essays have appeared in Chicago Review, Harvard Review, The Georgia Review, The New Yorker (Page-Turner), Poetry (Magazine), The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, and elsewhere. Yang has received fellowships from the DAAD artists-in-Berlin program, the Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and the Omina Freundeshilfe Foundation. His collaboration with Susie Ibarra “In Light of Water, Birds Take Flight” was performed with a participatory orchestra in the Richard Serra galleries at Dia: Beacon in March 2024. He works as an editor for New Directions Publishing, and for over a decade was also a senior editor at New York Review Books.