Sun Tzu-ping

Sun Tzu-ping, a literary editor, prose writer, and poet, is the author of the poetry volume Sentimentalist (2018), the essay collection Knowing Shadows (2015), and the novel Male Bodies (1998), all published in Taiwan, where Sun serves as an editor at the Liberty Times.

Sun Tzu-ping

Features

Happiness Is Very Hard (Is It); Dark Eye Circles; & God Knows Our Secrets, translated from the Taiwanese Mandarin by Nicholas Wong

Happiness Is Very Hard (Is It) If pain secretly visits and sleeps over In a zigzagging night The body, like a habit-driven curve, Will become bitter and stiff at […]

IN Winter 2020

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

This Is the House that Cotton Built (fold-out insert)

Microchimerism

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

on The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

on Sea Change by Gina Chung

on Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

Janine Joseph Takes on How Personhood and Credibility Enter the Record (on Janine Joseph’s...

South to a New Place: Imani Perry and Adolph Reed Jr. on Racial Reckoning...

on This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings

on The Math Campers by Dan Chiasson

on White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

Fall 2023

Sun Tzu-ping

Happiness Is Very Hard (Is It); Dark Eye Circles; & God Knows Our Secrets, translated from the Taiwanese Mandarin by Nicholas Wong

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...