Zhang Er, born in Beijing, is the author of four collections of poetry in Chinese, most recently Yellow Walls: A String of Doors (2010). She has six chapbooks in English translation, among them, Carved Water and Sight Progress. Her selected poems in two bilingual collections, So Translating Rivers and Cities (2007) and Verses on Bird (2004) are from Zephyr Press. She co-edited the bilingual volume Another Kind of Nation: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry which was published by Talisman House Publishers in 2007. Her work in English translation can be found on line at How2，Locuspoint, Jacket2 and Words Without Borders. [Read]