On Translating Qiu Jin: To Meet a Kindred Spirit Who Cherishes the Same Songs

Yilin Wang

Yilin Wang 王艺霖 (she/they) is a writer, poet, and Chinese-English translator. She is the editor and translator of The Lantern and Night Moths, an anthology of translated Chinese poetry accompanied by her original essays on translation (Invisible Publishing, 2024). Her translations have also appeared in POETRY, Guernica, Room, Asymptote, Samovar, The Common, LA Review of Books’ “China Channel,” and the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom 2022). Her writings have appeared in Words WIthout Borders, The Tyee, The Toronto Star, Clarkesworld, The Malahat Review, and elsewhere. She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of Canada’s National Magazine Award, been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, and been a finalist for an Aurora Award. Yilin has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is a graduate of the 2021 Clarion West Writers Workshop.

Daisy Rockwell

PTIC, Spring 2024 Translator In Residence

Daisy Rockwell is an artist and literary translator living in Vermont. She translates from Hindi and Urdu into English with a focus on women's writing. Her translation of the Hindi novel Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree was the winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize and the 2022 Warwick Women's Prize in Translation. In 2019, she was awarded the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for the Translation of a Literary Work for her translation of Krishna Sobti's A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There. In 2023 she was awarded the Vani Foundation's Distinguished Translator Award. She holds a PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.