The Pain Fish

Yun Wang is the author of poetry books The Book of Totality (Salmon Poetry Press, 2015) and The Book of Jade (Winner of the 15th Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Story Line Press, 2002), poetry chapbooks Horse by the Mountain Stream (Word Palace Press, 2016) and The Carp (Bull Thistle Press, 1994), and a book of translations, Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po (White Pine Press, forthcoming 2019). Wang’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals, including Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, and Salamander Magazine. She is a cosmologist at California Institute of Technology.