Timothy Yu

Timothy Yu is the author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 (Stanford University Press) as well as the poetry collection 100 Chinese Silences (forthcoming from Les Figues Press). He is also the author of two chapbooks of poetry, 15 Chinese Silences (Tinfish) and Journey to the West (Barrow Street). He is associate professor of English and Asian American studies and director of the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.