Jeanne Larsen

Jeanne Larsen’s first book James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, won the AWP award competition in poetry. She has since published three novels– Silk Road, Bronze Mirror and Manchu Palaces–and two books of translations, Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao and Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s Poems from Tang China. She teaches at Hollins University. A new book Why We Make Gardens, & Other Poems will be out in August 2010 from Mayapple Press.