Brent Yan Biography

Brent Yan, aka Yan Haifeng, born in Qufu, is a member of the Democratic League of China, a candidate doctor at the Institute of Foreign Literature of Beijing Foreign Studies University, an associate professor at Shandong University of Political Science and Law, a member of Shandong Writers' Association, and a member of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) . He is also the council of the Chinese Society for Comparative Civilization, the director of the English Translation of Chinese Classics Committee of the China Association for Comparative Studies of English and Chinese, the guest editor of Renditions of International Poetry, executive translating editor of Poetry Hall and the deputy editor-in-chief of Business Translation. He is the author of two poetry collections, A Page of Rill and Hill and Cruel Moon, and the translator of about 20 poetry collections like Village Past, Life, Ode to the Plain, Phoenix Tree, Yell out the Sun, Vacant House, Mind Wanders, etc. He also compiled Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry and Multilingual Deping in Poetry Series. He was awarded the translation prize of the 4th Chinese Contemporary Poetry Award in 2016, among many other awards.