Jeanne Larsen
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Jeanne Larsen

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Jeanne Larsen fell in love with Chinese poetry when she was in high school. After earning her M.A. in creative writing, she spent two years teaching at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and studying Mandarin. That not only locked in her love for Tang era poets and the world they lived in, it convinced her that, right Mom, she'd better go get a Ph.D. A few years of Comparative Literature later (Iowa City, USA, & Nagasaki, Japan, mostly), Jeanne started teaching at Hollins, between the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny highlands, in Virginia's Roanoke valley. She eventually went back to Taiwan for more language work. Summer seminars for college and university teachers helped her learn more about Chinese history and culture. Most recently, an intensive session at the Center for Hellenic Studies furthered her interest in Homer's ODYSSEY. Jeanne's new book, WHAT PENELOPE CHOOSES: POEMS, won the Cider Press Review Book Award. She has also published WHY WE MAKE GARDENS (& OTHER POEMS) and the AWP Award winning (JAMES COOK IN SEARCH OF TERRA INCOGNITA: A BOOK OF POEMS), two collections of translated poems by women of the Tang era (BROCADE RIVER POEMS and WILLOW, WINE, MIRROR, MOON), a little lit crit, the novel SALLY PARADISO, and the three novels in her "Avalokitesvara trilogy", SILK ROAD, BRONZE MIRROR, and MANCHU PALACES. Essays, poetry, translations, and occasionally a short story all show up in literary magazines (some print, some digital), now and then. More books in the works, of course.
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