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<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Jianqing Zheng is the author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Dog Years of Reeducation A Way of Looking</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and five</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>poetry chapbooks and e-chapbooks; editor of seven scholarly books including </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Conversations</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>with Dana Gioia</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit through Haiku</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>; and coeditor of four scholarly</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>books including </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. He received the 2019 Gerald Cable Book Prize</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>2001 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award and three Mississippi Arts Commission poetry</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>fellowships among other awards and honors. He is a professor of English at Mississippi Valley</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>State University where he founded and edits the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Journal of Ethnic American Literature</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Valley Voices: A Literary Review</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines including</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Another Chicago Magazine Arkansas Review Birmingham Poetry Review Cimarron Review</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Hanging Loose Mississippi Review</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Spillway.</em></p><p></p>