Dong LI

Dong LI （李栋） is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. His full-length English translations from Chinese include the PEN/Heim-winning The Gleaner Song (Giramondo / Deep Vellum, 2021) by SONG Lin, The Wild Great Wall (Deep Vellum, 2018) by ZHU Zhu, and his PEN/Heim-winning The Ruins by YE Hui is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. His debut poetry collection, The Orange Tree (University of Chicago Press, 2023), was the inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize and a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize.