Dai Weina 戴潍娜 is an award-winning poet, short story writer, playwright, translator, editor and scholar based in Beijing, where she works for Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She holds an MPhil from Oxford University and a PhD from Renmin University of China. She has published four poetry collections, notably Face Shield and Soul Gymnastics. Her short story collection Ganoderma Girl was published in 2013 and her play Invasion was performed in 2016. Her books of translation include Miklos Haraszti’s The Velvet Prison. She also edits Light-Year, a poetry translation magazine. Her poems have been translated into English, German and Korean.
