Poet and author, Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her poetry collections have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. She is the author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (2002), The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty (1994), and Dwarf Bamboo (1987). Chin has won numerous awards for her poetry, including the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, four Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Prize, and she has received a Stegner Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to Taiwan. She has also has translated poems by the modern Chinese poet Ai Qing and co-translated poems by the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu. In addition to writing and translating poetry, Chin writes fiction. Her recently published first novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (2009), is the story of Chinese-American twins and their search for double happiness under the watchful (and occasionally vengeful) eye of their grandmother. Chin co-directs the MFA program at San Diego State University.