born Shanghai 1957
came to the United States 1985
Hangzhou Foreign Language School, Hangzhou, China, 1976-1978
B.A. (English Literature) Beijing University, 1984
M.A. (English Literature) Long Island University, 1987
M.A. (Comparative Literature) New York University, 1994
Ph.D., (Comparative Literature) New York University, 1999
professor of English, Macalester College
friend of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder
wrote American Visa (short stories, 1994), Foreign Devil (novel, 1996), Of Flesh and Spirit (poetry, 1998), all from Coffee House Press; edited and co-translated New Generation: Poetry from China Today (1999), an anthology of Chinese poetry published by Hanging Loose Press; most recent book, Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (2000), is from the University of Minnesota Press; has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts for poetry, and the Minnesota State Arts Board for fiction
Wang Ping at Asian American Writer's Workshop
more Wang Ping at La Petite Zine
Wang Ping home page at Macalester College
Wang Ping at Macalester College Department of English
Wang Ping at Poets on Poetry, interviewed by Daniel Kane
Wang Ping at Teachers and Writers Collaborative