Jianqing Zheng is the author of The Dog Years of Reeducation, A Way of Looking, and five poetry chapbooks and e-chapbooks; editor of seven scholarly books, including Conversations with Dana Gioia and Sonia Sanchez's Poetic Spirit through Haiku; and coeditor of four scholarly books, including Dana Gioia: Poet & Critic. He received the 2019 Gerald Cable Book Prize, 2001 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and three Mississippi Arts Commission poetry fellowships, among other awards and honors. He is a professor of English at Mississippi Valley State University, where he founded and edits the Journal of Ethnic American Literature and Valley Voices: A Literary Review. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Another Chicago Magazine, Arkansas Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Hanging Loose, Mississippi Review, and Spillway.