Ku Jin Author

Ku Jin is an award-winning author of central China’s Tujia ethnicity and a member of both the China and Chongqing Writers’ Associations. He has been published in various literary journals, and his writing has also appeared in a number of anthologies, including the China Writers' Association’s Selection of Chinese Minority Literature in the New Century. Wu Jiamei is a researcher and associate professor at Sichuan International Studies University. She has translated several English-language novels into Chinese, including Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear, Darling, Mercy Dog of World War I by Alice Leonhardt, and The Princess in Black series by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale. Her translations from Chinese to English include After the Finale by Zhou Daxin, Cloud Farming by Chone Yum Tsering, White Crane Boy by Ku Jin, and Slowly the River Flows by Huang Zheng. In 2019, she won third prize in the Chongqing Translators Association’s Excellence in Translation Awards. She currently lives and works in Chongqing.