Joel Martinsen

Managing Editor, danwei.org

Beijing, China

Joel Martinsen is the managing editor of Danwei.org, a website that publishes translations from the Chinese print media and online forums and blogs. He has been a fan of Chinese science fiction since 2003, when he attended a science fiction studies course at Beijing Normal University. His translation of an excerpt of Liu Cixin's Ball Lightning appeared in the December 2009 issue of Words Without Borders.