Ming Di (pen name of Mindy Zhang) was born and grew up in China, went to Boston for graduate studies and moved to California where she writes and publishes in China and Taiwan. Author of six collections in Chinese: Etudes in D Minor, Days Floating on Footage, Berlin Story, Art of Splitting, Chords Breaking and Selected Poems of Ming Di, and editor of Poetry East West, a bilingual literary journal, she also translates poetry and literary essays from English to Chinese with two volumes published and three forthcoming.