Mary M.Y. Fung was born in Hong Kong and received her B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Hong Kong, her M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, her Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the University of Warwick. She taught Chinese Literature and Translation at the University of Hong Kong for over thirty years and is currently Honorary Associate Professor at the University. Her publications include translations both from English to Chinese and Chinese to English as well as learned papers in translation studies in academic journals. The Carving of Insects, English translations of the poetry of Bian Zhilin (1910-2000), in collaboration with David Lunde, won the 2007 PEN USA Translation Award. Her most recent publication is The First and Second Buddhist Councils: Five Versions, English Translations from Pali and Chinese, jointly with K. Anuruddha Thera and S.K. Siu, Hong Kong: Chi Lin Nunnery, 2008. Her ongoing project is the translation into English of Chinese Zen poetry, also in collaboration with David Lunde.
David Lunde is a poet and translator whose work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Kansas Quarterly, Chelsea, Confrontation, Hawai’i Review, Chicago Review, Seneca Review, Cottonwood, The Literary Review, Renditions, and Northwest Review. His work has been included in 40 anthologies, and he is the author of 11 books of poems and translations, the most recent being: Nightfishing in Great Sky River (1999); The Carving of Insects (2006), Bian Zhilin’s collected poems co-translated with Mary M.Y. Fung, which won the 2007 PEN USA Translation Award; Instead (2007), a collection of poems; Breaking the Willow (2008), and 300 Tang Poems (2011), translations of classical Chinese poetry.
