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