Impossible Paradise: Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781800175365)

Diana Shi, co-recipient of two US National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships, has collaborated since 2006 with George O' Connell in translating many prominent western and Chinese-speaking poets. In 2012 they launched Pangolin House, pangolinhouse.com, an international journal of poetry and art. Ms. Shi's extensive selections from American poet Arthur Sze's The Glass Constellation appeared in Chinese under the same title in 2023. Her volume of translations of Jane Hirshfield, I Wanted Only a Little, was published in 2024.

George O' Connell, editor and translator with Diana Shi, has received numerous honors for his poetry, including Atlanta Review's International Grand Prize and the Pablo Neruda Award, as well as two US National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships. He has also served as Fulbright professor to Peking University and National Taiwan University. Among his translations with Ms. Shi are Darkening Mirror by Wang Jiaxin; Crossing the Harbour: Ten Contemporary Hong Kong Poets; and Passages: Thirteen Contemporary Taiwan Poets.

Chen Yuhong was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and graduated from the Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages. After a decade in Canada, she returned to Taiwan, settling in Taipei. Among her many awards, she was named Taiwan Poet of the Year for Annotations, her 2004 collection. Bewitched received 2007's Taiwan Chinese Writers & Artists Association's Poetry Award, while two of her eight poetry volumes, Trance and In Between, earned the United Daily News Grand Prize in Literature.