Nguyen Ba Chung, a writer and poet, is the co-translator of A Time Far Past by Le Luu; Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from The Wars 1948–1993; Distant Road: Selected Poems of Nguyen Duy; Zen Poems from Early Vietnam; and other volumes. He served for many years as research associate at the William Joiner Institute at UMass Boston. (updated 9/2020)