Translator and Poet. MA, Yale University (East Asian Studies), PhD, University of Washington (East Asian Languages and Literature). Her translations have appeared in Poetry International Festival (Rotterdam, 2004), Manoa: Mercury Rising: Contemporary Poetry From Taiwan (2003), Frontier Taiwan: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan (Columbia University Press, 2001), The Poem and the World (Seattle, 1994) and Time Asia, (October 23, 2000). She is also the translator of the novels, Candy (Little, Brown, 2003), Farewell to My Concubine (1993), and The Last Princess of Manchuria (1992). She lives in Seattle with her husband and three children.

耶鲁大学东亚系硕士，华盛顿大学东亚语言文学系博士。她翻译的诗和小说散见于哥伦比亚大学出版社等出版机构的很多选本中。她与她的先生和三个孩子定居于美国西雅图。