Xiao Hai, born in 1965 in Jiangsu Hai’an, is a contemporary Chinese poet. His real name is Tu Haiyan, and he graduated from the Chinese Department of Nanjing University. His poetry collections include Must Bend to the Weeds, Village, Pastoral, North Linghe, The Great Qin Empire (Poetic Drama), The Song of Shadows (Long Poem) – which is also in an English-Chinese bilingual edition – Boys and Girls (Xiao Hai’s poetry 1980-2012); Dialogue recording The Unfamiliar Friend: Ilan Stavans and Xiao Hai’s Dialogue; and the Essay Collection Old Dream Record. His works were listed in the Beijing Literature 1998 list of contemporary Chinese literary works. He has won many other awards over the years, such as the 2000 poetry award in Writer magazine, the Tianwen Poets Award in 2012, the Beautiful Island Poet Laureates Award in 2015 and 2016, the 1st Prize of the 5th “Changjiang Cup” Jiangsu Literature Review Award, the 2nd, 4th and 5th Zijin Mountain Literature Prize of Jiangsu Province, and the Ye Shengtao Literature Prize of Suzhou City. He now lives in Suzhou.