Living in Seclusion

About the Author

Xiao Xiao, poet, artist, editor-in-chief of 'China Poetry Online'. In 1993, she edited A Complete Collection of Pre-menglong Poetry, A Complete Collection of Menglong Poetry and A Complete Collection of Post-menglong Poetry (1993). Her published collections of poetry include The Woman and Her Poetry Under a Tree (2005), Time on Tiptoes (2012), Sadder than Sadness (2014), Poems of Xiao Xiao (published 2018 in Spanish in Cuba), Sad Songs from Another World (published 2016 in Romanian in Romania), A Selection of Poems by Xiao Xiao (forthcoming in Russian in Russia), Speaking to the Soul (forthcoming in Korean in Korea in October 2019), among others.

Her work has been translated into German, English, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Persian, Arabic, Bengali and Spanish. Her paintings have been exhibited in 'An Art Exhibition for Contemporary Chinese Poets' and 'A Show of Calligraphy and Paintings for Contemporary Chinese Men and Women of Letters'. Her long poem, 'Sad Songs from another World', is regarded as one of the most representative works for women's literature in the 1990s and, when translated by Ouyang Yu into English, was published as the title piece in Long Poem Magazine in the U.K. She was invited to do a reading at the launch of Long Poem Magazine at the Barbican Centre in London.

Xiao Xiao has won numerous poetry awards in China and overseas, such as the Wen Yiduo Poetry Award, the Special Contribution Award for a Century of New Poetry, the Annual Poetry Award by Poetry Tide magazine, the Poetry Award by Beijing Literature magazine, the First Award for the ten top poems in 2017 by China Poetry Net, one of the top ten poets in 2018, and the Tudor Arghezi international poetry prize in 2016 in Romania, of which she is the first Asian recipient. She has also been awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Targu Carbunesti in Romania in 2016.