the author of the poetry books Vanishing-Line and An Aquarium. He is the translator of Su Shi's East Slope and Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies; and is the editor of Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions and, with Natasha Wimmer, Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal, which contained a special feature on Uyghur poetry. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books.