Author Description

<p>Jianqing Zheng is the author of The Dog Years of Reeducation, A Way of Looking, and five</p><p>poetry chapbooks and e-chapbooks; editor of seven scholarly books, including Conversations</p><p>with Dana Gioia and Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit through Haiku; and coeditor of four scholarly</p><p>books, including Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic. He received the 2019 Gerald Cable Book Prize, </p><p>2001 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and three Mississippi Arts Commission poetry</p><p>fellowships, among other awards and honors. He is a professor of English at Mississippi Valley</p><p>State University, where he founded and edits the Journal of Ethnic American Literature and</p><p>Valley Voices: A Literary Review. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including</p><p>Another Chicago Magazine, Arkansas Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, </p><p>Hanging Loose, Mississippi Review, and Spillway.</p><p></p>