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Jike Ayou is the author of the poetry collection 所有归来的日子都是彝年 (All of Our Homecomings Are Feted as Yi New Year), published in his home country of China, and his poems have appeared in more than 100 newspapers and journals. One of the six poets featured in The Verse of Us, a documentary film on Chinese migrant worker poets, Jike is the first published migrant worker poet of Yi ethnicity. (updated 4/2026)

Yě Yě is the author of three poetry collections. Her poems and translations have appeared in Tripwire Journal, SNOW lit rev, AGNI, Oxford Poetry, Modern Poetry in Translation, Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, and PEN America, among other journals. Founder of Poetry Lab Shanghai and Nü Editions,she has been awarded a 2026 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for her translations of Jike Ayou’s work. (updated 4/2026)