Contact Information
Old Main 208, (651) 696-6512
Expertise
- Creative writing, poetry and fiction
- The Chinese-American immigrant experience
- Footbinding, sexuality and eroticism in Chinese culture
- Women in modern China
- Chinese migrant workers and industrialization
- Environmental issues
- Photography
Honors & Awards
- : Best Book for the Teen Age selection, New York Public Library, 1994, for _American Visa_
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for poetry, 1995
- New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships for poetry, 1997
- New York Foundation for the Arts fellowships for translation, 1997
- Eugene M. Kayden Book Award for the Best Book in the Humanities, 2001, for _Aching for Beauty : Footbinding in China_
- Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship for Fiction, 2001
- Bush Artist fellowship for Poetry, 2003
- The Loft Career Initiative grant, 2003
- Minnesota Book Award finalist, 2004, for _The Magic Whip_