Dong Li is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. He is the English translator of the PEN/Heim-winning The Gleaner Song (Giramondo & Deep Vellum, 2021) by the Chinese poet SONG Lin, and The WildGreat Wall (Deep Vellum, 2018) by the Chinese poet ZHU Zhu. His debut collection of poetry The Orange Tree (University of Chicago Press, 2023) was the inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize and a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s Four Quartets Prize.