Timothy Yu is the Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and Professor of English and Asian American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 and 100 Chinese Silences, and he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Poetry and Nests and Strangers: On Asian American Women Poets.