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Poet and cosmologist Yun Wang grew up in rural southwest China. She began writing poetry when she was 12, and majored in Physics at Tsinghua University when she was 16. She came to the U.S. for graduate school in Physics in 1985. She is the author of two poetry books, The Book of Totality, (Salmon Poetry Press, 2015) and The Book of Jade, Winner of the 15th Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, (Story Line Press, 2002), two poetry chapbooks, Horse by the Mountain Stream, (Word Palace Press, 2016,) The Carp, (Bull Thistle Press, 1994), and a book of poetry translations, Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po, (White Pine Press, forthcoming 2018). Wang’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals, including “The Kenyon Review”, “Cimarron Review”, “Salamander Magazine”, “Green Mountains Review”, and “International Quarterly.” Her translations of classical Chinese poetry have been published in “Poetry Canada Review”, “Willow Springs”, “Connotation Press”, and elsewhere. Wang is a Senior Research Scientist at California Institute of Technology. She is the author of the cosmology graduate textbook, Dark Energy, (Wiley/VCH, 2010). She was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012.
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