Yuan Changming, who grew up in rural China and started to learn the English alphabet at age nineteen, holds a PhD in English from the University of Saskatchewan and hails with Allen Yuan from poetrypacific.blogspot.ca. Credits include eleven Pushcart Prize nominations, nine chapbooks and awards, as well as publications in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17) and BestNewPoemsOnline, among nearly 1800 others, across 46 countries.