Jason Sommer Author & Translator

Jason Sommer's previous poetry collections are Lifting the Stone, Other People's Troubles, and The Man Who Sleeps in My Office. He has published translations of Irish language poems and, with Hongling Zhang, Chinese Fiction: Wang in Love and Bondage by Wang Xiaobo and The Bathing Women by Tie Ning. Among other awards, he has won a Whiting Foundation Writer's Fellowship. He is a professor of English at Fontbonne University in St. Louis.