Bio of Wang Ping

Wang Ping is a poet, writer, photographer, and performance / multimedia artist. Her publications have been translated into multiple languages and include poetry, short stories, novels, cultural studies, and children's stories. Her multimedia exhibitions address global themes of industrialization, the environment, interdependency, and the people. She is the recipient of numerous awards, a professor of English, and founder of the Kinship of Rivers project.

Her books include four collections of poetry, The Magic Whip, Of Flesh & Spirit, Ten Thousand Waves, and My Name Is Immigrant. She has also authored the novel Foreign Devil; two collections of fiction stories, American Visa and The Last Communist Virgin; a book of  Chinese folklore titled The Dragon Emperor; and a book of creative nonfiction, Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi.  

Her most recent book of poetry, My Name Is Immigrant, is a song for the plight and pride of immigrants around the globe. Whether they pull up their roots to flee war, the rising sea or drought, for religious freedom and freedom of speech, or simply to seek a better life, immigrants are the frontiers of civilization.