Shao Wei came to the United States in 1996 and was raised near the Yangtze River in China. She earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from New York University and an M.F.A from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. She earned her Ph.D. in CW from UT Dallas in 2015. Her accolades include a 2002 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, etc. She authorizes the poetry collection Pulling a Dragon’s Teeth and Homeland (Chinese version).