Xiaoyan Fu is currently working as an education consultant in China. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fudan University and a Master of Science in Education degree from the University of Pennsylvania. As a lover for languages and literature, she spends her spare time on reading and translation, which brought her to the Thousand Language Project, an initiative that speaks to her passion to forge connections in the world of words.

Xiaoyan Fu is currently working as an education consultant in China. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fudan University and a Master of Science in Education degree from the University of Pennsylvania. As a lover for languages and literature, she spends her spare time on reading and translation, which brought her to the Thousand Language Project, an initiative that speaks to her passion to forge connections in the world of words.

Xiaoyan Fu is currently working as an education consultant in China. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fudan University and a Master of Science in Education degree from the University of Pennsylvania. As a lover for languages and literature, she spends her spare time on reading and translation, which brought her to the Thousand Language Project, an initiative that speaks to her passion to forge connections in the world of words.

Beatrice Szymkowiak is a French-American writer and scholar. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Red Zone (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a poetry chapbook, as well as the winner of the 2017 OmniDawn Single Poem Broadside Contest, and the recipient of the 2022 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her full-length collection B/RDS, published by the University of Utah Press in 2023.

Beatrice Szymkowiak is a French-American writer and scholar. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Red Zone (Finishing Line Press, 2018), a poetry chapbook, as well as the winner of the 2017 OmniDawn Single Poem Broadside Contest, and the recipient of the 2022 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry for her full-length collection B/RDS, published by the University of Utah Press in 2023.