Jeanne Larsen

Jeanne Larsen is the author of two books of poetry: Why We Make Gardens (& other Poems) (Mayapple Press, 2010), and James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita: A Book of Poems (University Press of Virginia, 1979), which won the AWP Award Series in Poetry. She is the author of two of literary translations: Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s Poems from Tang China (BOA Editions Ltd., 2005), and Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao (Princeton University Press, 1987). She has published an e-novel, Sally Paradiso (Brown Fedora Books, 2009), and three print novels, all from Henry Holt & Co.: Manchu Palaces (1996), Bronze Mirror (1991), and Silk Road (1989). Larsen teaches in the Jackson Center for Creative Writing at Hollins University. Photo by Olivia P. Body

Photo by Olivia P. Body