Changming Yuan is a two-time Pushcart nominee and author of Chansons of a Chinaman (2009) and Politics and Poetics (2009). He grew up in rural China and published several books before moving to canada. With a PhD in English, Yuan currently teaches writing in Vancouver and has had poems appearing in The Cortland Review, Barrow Street, Best Canadian Poetry, London Magazine and nearly 300 other literary publications worldwide. [Read]