Mike O'Connor

(Thomas) Mike O'Connor, a native of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, is a poet, writer, and translator of Chinese literature. Beginning in the 1970s, he engaged in farming and forest work, followed by a journalism career in Asia. He is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, an International Writers' Workshop Fellowship (Hong Kong), and a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship. He has published ten books, including poetry, translation and memoir.

The author lives in Port Townsend, Washington.