Bei Ling
Bei Ling, a poet and essayist, is the founder and editor of Tendency, an exile literary journal founded in late 1993 and published in Chinese. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the Independent Chinese PEN Center in 2001, an organization of Chinese writers and intellectuals based in Boston, Massachusetts, and dedicated to the freedom of expression. Bei Ling's poetry, essays and book reviews have been published in The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The Harvard Review. His poetry has been translated from Chinese into English, Japanese, German, French and Spanish. (Biography sourced from Griffith Review)