Anna Keiko

According to the Antologia del II Festival Internacional de Poesia de Santiago 2019, Anna Keiko has published poetry, prose, essays and dramatic works.

At present, Anna Keiko lives in Shanghai, China. It was in Shanghai that her poetic contribution was first recognized. In two major poetry festivals in Shanghai, Anna Keiko was awarded highly esteemed prizes. The poems of her poetry book The Language of Deep Sleep were broadcast by the People’s Radio Station of Shanghai. In 2019, she participated in the Seventh International Poetry Festival in Krayova, Romania and in the 2nd International Poetry Festival in Santiago, Chile. In 2020, Anna Keiko won a literary prize during an international poetry competition in Italy. In November 2020, it was reported that Anna Keiko won a prize in San Remo. In May 2021, the SC Daily News reported that Anna Keiko won a major prize during the Italian Global COVID-19 Poetry Competition. And during the Poetry Competition in Alassio, Italy, in the summer of 2021, Anna Keiko was awarded the “International Prize” as “Best Foreign Author.” In September 2021, the Houston-based 美南日报 Mei Nan Ribao (SC Daily News) reported that Anna Keiko won a major literary prize in Lebanon. And in the same year, the International Writers‘ Journal (published in Grand Rapids, Ohio) featured poems by her. Anna Keiko’s poetry has appeared in more than 50 publications in China and abroad.

Anna Keiko’s poetry book The Language of Deep Sleep (Shanghai, first edition, June 2017) features a preface by Li Tianjing, who is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and editor of the China Normal University Magazine. It also features another text by Wang Genfa, who is a member of the Jiangxi Writers Association and a member of the China Television Artists Association as well as vice chairman of the Shangrao Writers Association. Both authors praise Anna Keiko’s poetry. Her poetry book Solitude in the Blood features a preface by Wang Yagang, Chairman of the Shanghai Pudong New Area Writers Association and a member of the Chinese Writers Association. It also features a preface by the Belgian poet Germain Droogenbroodt, a text by Lidia Chiarelli, another text by a Romanian translator of German origin who is also a writer, and a text by a Polish poet and artist.

Anna Keiko (Anna 惠子; Anna Huizi, pseudonym of Anna Wang) is a Chinese poet born in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province, China, in 1974. Formerly, she studied Law at East China University of Political Science and Law.