Ouyang Yu came to Australia in mid-April 1991 and has since published 139 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and criticism in English and Chinese languages, including his award-winning novels, The Eastern Slope Chronicle (2002) and The English Class (2010), his collection of poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997), and his poetry book, Terminally Poetic (2020), that won the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Book in the 2021 Queensland Literary Awards. He is shortlisted for the Writer’s Prize in the 2021 Melbourne Prize for Literature and won the Fellowship from the Australia Council in 2021 for writing a documentary novel. Ouyang Yu’s books are available here: www.huangzhouren.com PressPress, 2016) and HUSH (Blank Rune Press, 2017).