Simon Shieh is the author of Master (Sarabande Books, 2023), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize and the Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America, and Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. His poems and essays are published in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Guernica, and The Yale Review, among others, and have been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts Literature fellowship and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Simon is a co-founder of Spittoon Literary Magazine, which translates the best contemporary Chinese writing into English.
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