Wang Ping

Wang also collaborated with British filmmaker Isaac Julien on "Ten Thousand Waves", a film installation about a tragedy that occurred on February 5, 2004, when twenty-three Chinese migrant laborers drowned in Morecambe Bay, England, caught off guard by an incoming tide.

Wang spent much of the 1990s as a writing instructor or poet in residence, and in 1999 she obtained a position as assistant professor at Macalester College. She is currently a full Professor of English at Macalester, and teaches courses in creative writing and poetry.

Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years farming in a mountain village during the Cultural Revolution, mostly self-taught with little prior formal education available, she attended Beijing University and earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature. In 1985 she left China to study in the U.S., earning her master's degree in English Literature from Long Island University and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from New York University.

Wang Ping (born August 14, 1957) is a Chinese-American poet, writer, photographer, performance and multimedia artist. Her publications have been translated into multiple languages and include poetry, short stories, novels, cultural studies, and children's stories. Her multimedia exhibitions address global themes of industrialization, the environment, interdependency, and the people. She is the recipient of numerous awards, a professor of English, and founder of the Kinship of Rivers project.