JING JING YANG

JING JING YANG is the first immigrant Poet Laureate, and the first-ever re-elected Poet Laureate for two consecutive terms (2020~2022) for the City of Cupertino, California - the birthplace of Apple Inc. She was the grand winner of the city-wide Celebrate Creativity Poetry Contest 2017, with her poem “Logograph” in memory of her grandfather, Yang, Shuda (the master philologist of Chinese language and a mentor of Mao Zedong). Her English and Chinese writings have been featured worldwide in Celebrate Creativity Anthology, Redwood Forest, City Headline, Cupertino Scene, and Changsha Nightly Post. Born in Changsha, China, she lives in San Jose, California.

“Flowers In My Dreams” is Jing Jing’s first bilingual poetry collection.