Timothy Liu is the author of five books of poems: Vox Angelica (Alice James Books, 1992), which won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America; Burnt Offerings (Copper Canyon Press, 1995); Say Goodnight (Copper Canyon Press, 1998); Hard Evidence (Talisman House, 2001); and Of Thee I Sing (University of Georgia Press, 2004). A new book, For Dust Thou Art, is forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press in Fall 2005. His poems have recently been translated into Chinese, Polish, Russian, Slovene and Turkish. Born in California and raised by immigrant parents from Mainland China, Liu is currently an Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University and on the Core Faculty of the MFA Writing Program at Bennington College. He lives in Hoboken, NJ.

刘悌摩出版过五本书。他的第一本诗集《沃克丝.安杰莉卡》(詹姆士书局, 1992)，获美国诗歌协会诺玛.珐芭首书奖；《被烧毁的奉献》(库博大峡谷出版社, 1995)；《说晚安》（库博大峡谷出版社，1998）；《有力的证据》(塔里斯曼书社, 2001)；《我为你而歌唱》(乔治亚大学出版社，2004)。他的新书，《你为凡尘》即将由南伊利诺大学出版社于2005 年秋季出版。他的诗被译为多种文字，包括中文，波兰文，俄文，斯洛文尼亚文和土耳其文。在加利福尼亚出生的刘悌摩生长于中国大陆移民来美的父母家庭，目前是威廉帕特森大学的英语副教授，同时也是柏林顿学院的MFA创作班的核心教员。他现定居在新泽西州的霍波肯。