Lauri Scheyer

Lauri Scheyer (卢嫣美) is a writer and English professor with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She writes about poetry and culture as paths to cross-cultural communication. Her special interest is the voices of those who historically have been insufficiently heard and represented. Lauri is Xiaoxiang Distinguished Professor at Hunan Normal University (China) where she directs the British and American Poetry Research Center. She is also Professor Emeritus of English at California State University, Los Angeles where she was founding director of the Presidentially Chartered Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. Her books (under Lauri Ramey) include "A History of African American Poetry" (Cambridge University Press), "Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry" (Palgrave Macmillan), "The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975" (Routledge), "Every Goodbye Ain't Gone" and "What I Say" with Aldon Lynn Nielsen (University of Alabama Press), and "Black British Writing" with R. Victoria Arana (Palgrave Macmillan). She is based in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Changsha, China.