is a lecturer at the Chinese Language Proficiency Centre of the National University of Singapore. One of the best known women poets in the international Chinese community, Dan Ying was the 1995 recipient of the Southeast Asian Writers' Award (SEAWrite) and Singapore's National Book Development Council Book Award for Chinese Poetry in 1979 (for Poems of Taiji) and 1994 (for Ages on My Hairs). From the time she published her first two poetry collection in the late 1960s, Dan Ying's work has been widely anthologized, most notably in Kenneth Rexroth's The Orchid Boat: Women Poets of China (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972). She and her husband, poet and critic Wong Yoon Wah, are at the IWP on a sabbatical grant from the National University of Singapore.
Countries
Singapore
Languages
Chinese
Session
1996