Ming Di (aka Mindy) is a Chinese poet and translator living in America. She is co-founder and editor of Poetry East West, a Chinese-English bilingual magazine published in China and the US. She was educated at Boston College and Boston University and taught Chinese at BU before moving to Los Angeles where she is writing and translating. She has published six poetry collections and has translated Gary Snyder, W.S Mervin, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly and many young poets from other countries into Chinese and also translated Chinese poetry into English. Her book length translation includes Selected Poems of Ha Jin (2009), The Writer as Migrant (2010), Missed Time (2011) and a poetry anthology coming out in 2012. [Read 1 2]