In the Roar of the Machine - Zheng Xiaoqiong
Zheng Xiaoqiong is a Chinese poet from Nanchong, Sichuan. She worked in a local hospital before relocating to the industrial city of Dongguan, where she worked in factory assembly lines and wrote poems centered on industrial labor and the experiences of migrant workers. In 2007, she won the Liqun Literature Award from the People's Literature Publishing House. She lives in Guangzhou. \n Eleanor Goodman is an American poet and author of the poetry collection Nine Dragon Island. An acclaimed translator from the Chinese, her translation Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Award and won the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. She is a research associate at the Harvard Fairbank Center.\n