Changming Yuan (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) grew up in rural China, authored three books before moving to Canada, holds a PhD in English and currently teaches writing in Vancouver. Yuan's poems have appeared in various literary publications including Barrow Street, "Best Canadian Poetry," and London Magazine. He has a poetry collection titled "Chansons of a Chinaman" (Leaf Garden Press, 2009).

Yuan's work previously appeared in the September 2009 issue of Apparatus Magazine.