Join us Tuesday, Feb. 11,2020, for readings of poetry by Amy Huichun Liang and fiction by Daren Dean.

Amy (Huichun) Liang is a Chinese writer and translator, who serves as a Chinese Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri. She is the author of a poetry collection, 'autumn, presencing,' co-author (with Zhanjing) of 'Chinese Idioms' and co-translator (with Steven Schroeder) of 'Small (poetry by Li Nan),' and other anthologies of poetry translation. Her writing has appeared in Da Gong (Hong Kong), Sing Tao Daily (US), and a variety of media in China. Her translation appears in voice & verse (Hong Kong), Sichuan Literature, Rhino and other anthologies of Chinese-to-English bilingual poetry translation. Her poems 'Loneliness' and 'Translator' have been in the shortlists in, respectively, the 2018 Flushing Poetry Festival and 2019 International Flushing Poetry Festival. Amy received the 2016 Purple Chalk Teaching award of the College of Arts and Science at MU. She was an editor and reporter at the China National Radio from 1985 to 1988. She received a special award for reporting on the terrible forest fire on Da-Xing-An Mountain in 1987 from the All-China Journalists Association and was the co-winner of the 1987 Annual News Editing prize of the China National Radio.

Daren Dean is the author of the novel ‘Far Beyond the Pale.’ His new short story collection, ‘I’ll Still Be Here Long After You're Gone,’ was published by CJ Press in December 2019. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Louisiana Literature, Delta Poetry Review, Maryland Literary Review, BULL (Men's Fiction), Midwestern Gothic, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Oklahoma Review, Fiction Southeast, StorySouth, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Currently, he serves as an Assistant Professor of English (Creative Writing Specialist-Fiction) at Lincoln University of Missouri. Daren Dean was born in Missouri, but also considers North Carolina and Louisiana home.