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Leilei Chen莫译is the author of Re-orienting China: Travel Writing and Cross-cultural Understanding (University of Regina Press) and the translator of Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press in Hong Kong, Yilin Press). She was granted Alberta Foundation for the Arts’ funding for her poetry in translation of MA Hui (马辉), I Have Forsaken Heaven and Earth, but Never Forsaken You, a Frontenac House 2023 Quartet book. Her translation of Ling Shuhua’s short story was anthologized in Virginia’s Sisters (Aurora Metro Books) and ecological writings by Jiang Zilong, Chen Yingsong, Fu Fei, and Baoerji Yuanye in Environmental Futures. She serves VP-West of the Literary Translators Association of Canada in 2020-2023 and lectures in the Department of English and Film Studies of the University of Alberta, Canada. (Photo credit: Sarah Zhenchun Xue)