Zheng Wei

Zheng Wei     Shadow & Me   Shadow January 14th 11am “How are you feeling right now?” I asked. “Weak and dizzy,” he replied, expressionlessly. He was lying on the hospital bed, with his body below the neck covered under the white quilt. His skin was as white as a film of rice paper. His upper […]

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Larissa Boehning

Larissa Boehning   Silent Fish, Sweetheart  “Imagine,” my mother says, “that you can’t really tell other people what you’re thinking, because you don’t speak their language. You can follow the sound of their language but you can’t tell when one word ends and another begins. You come to a strange land and you can’t understand […]

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International Writers Special Edition 2017

Dream Game, Memory’s Palazzo: The Sun Yat-sen International Writers Residency Special Edition   edited and with an introduction by Katherine Scott Nelson   In the fall of 2016, a group of international writers and Chinese college students convened in the humid jungles of Yangshuo, the red-brick botanic garden of Sun Yat-sen University, and the coffee-flavored […]

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