Eleanor Goodman is the author of the poetry collection Nine Dragon Island and the translator of five award-winning books from Chinese. She is a Research Associate at the Harvard University Fairbank Center and a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has published in journals such as The Paris Review, Granta, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Wasafiri,PN Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.