Shao Wei (American poet)
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from University of Texas, New York UniversityNew York University
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with an MFA.
She teaches English composition at the College of New Rochelle, Rosa Parks Campus, and Chinese at the China Institute, in New York City
New York City
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Her work appears in Parnassus, Crab Orchard Review, Seneca Review, 5 AM,
Works
- "Horse Riding"; "Chasing in the Wind", Homestead Review
- "Spirit of Butterflies Lovers, Story of A Chinese Classic Music", Brooklyn Rail, May 2001
- Nine Songs. Females, a poetry collection published in Chinese
Review
Winner of the 2002 Agnes Lynch Starrett poetry prize, this volume depicts a woman creating an identity out of two cultures. Caught between China and America, East Sichuan and Manhattan, the Yangtze River and the Hudson River, Shao Wei searches for sources of nourishment in a world in which she is forced to cut her heart "into two halves?"