Books

Dear Chrysanthemums
A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

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Scribner, 2023

Featured in New York Times Book Review

Prepub Alert in Library Journal | Featured in What to Read in 2023 | LJ's Annual Books Preview

Read reviews in Kirkus Reviews | Publishers Weekly | Booklist | Shelf Awareness | Asian Review of Books | Mekong Review | Mochi Magazine | No Man Is an Island (New Bloom Magazine) | Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism | Soapberry Review | Reading Chinese Network Reviews (The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing) | Georgia Review

Watch a book talk "Diaspora Unfurled" at the American Library in Paris

Listen to a podcast interview in the Asian Review of Books | New Books Network

Watch a podcast interview on The World of Chinese

Read an interview by Tsering Yangzom Lama in Asymptote

Read a conversation with Shawna Yang Ryan in Singapore Unbound (Suspect)

Read more interviews in Asian Books Blog | NüVoices | FUSAC (Paris) | Panorama

Featured on Page One program, KSUT Radio | in LitHub 

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Also available in Kindle | Audiobook (narrated by Catherine Ho)

Read reviews in AudioFile Magazine | Booklist | Library Journal

Rain in Plural
Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Catalog Press Release  

Watch a film here

Princeton University Press, 2020 
Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Starred Review in Library Journal:
Longing and Speech: Nine Major Poetry Collections from Writers Veteran and New

Finalist, 2021 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry

Read Sze-Lorrain's essay "How Each Line Appears | some loose leaves" in Princeton Ideas. 

More Than Allusion: Interview by William Sharpe at Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination [read the full piece here] 

Watch a filmed reading of "Not Meant as Poems," performed by Oscar Olivo 

From One Wound, How to Navigate Another: Interview with Dan Beachy-Quick by H.L. Hix at Inquire

Featured title in Asian American Poetry Unbound Lantern Review's "October APA Poetry Companion—Books to Curl Up with for Fall"

Read reviews in Poetry London, Asian Review of Books, Center for Literary Publishing (Colorado Review), Quill and Parchment, the Adroit Journal, EcoTheo Review, Singapore Unbound, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, and Harvard Review.

Featured in Yaddo News

Read a poem "Strand" in The Literary Hub.

"Macabre Dance" is featured on Poetry Daily.

Read an interview at Off the Coast.

For online purchases, order at the press, here, here, or here. 

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Mirror by Zhang Zao
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Afterword by Bei Dao

USA: Zephyr Press, 2025 
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Or preorder at www.amazon.com

Listen to "Mirror" in MPT (Keats Festival)
Read the Translator's Note

Read a review in Asian Review of Books

Read and learn more about the translated poem "The Prince of Chu Dreams of Rain" from Poetry Society of America

Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm
Poems and Essays by Yu Xiuhua
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Astra House, September 2021

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Read reviews in The Washington Post, the Poetry Foundation Harriet Books, the Great Book Wyrm, West Trade Review, The World of Chinese, the Asian Review of Books,  Los Angeles Review of Books, Culture and Dialogue, and Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism.

Featured in The New York Times' Globetrotting, Words without Borders' Watchlist, Medium, Space between Pages, and This Week in Rural China.

"Rain Falls outside the Window" is featured on Poetry Daily.

Listen to an interview on The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast.

A Blue Dark
Ink Drawings by Fritz Horstman
Poems and Translations by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Vif Éditions, 2019 

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Institute Library (The Gallery Upstairs) in New Haven, Connecticut

View exhibition photos.

View some of the artwork on Cahiers at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination. 

Read reviews in New Haven Independent and The Arts Paper.

Read an interview in Poetry Society of America.

Watch a brief promotional video.

Limited edition | US$22 (+ $14 shipping); €21

To purchase: info@vif-editions.com or phf.lorrain@orange.fr

The Ruined Elegance
Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Princeton University Press, 2016
Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets

Named one of Library Journal's Best Books 2015: Poetry and Top Fall Indie Poetry

Finalist, 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Order here or here. 

Read an interview and a poem on Princeton's blog.

Read an interview in The Literary Review blog.

Learn about the poem "Towering" from Poetry Society of America.

Read and listen to the poem "Transparent" from Princeton's Poem in Your Pocket Day National Poetry Month 2016.

Listen to the poem "Given Silence" from Princeton's Poem in Your Pocket Day National Poetry Month 2018.

Reviews in The Rumpus | Library Journal | Arcadia | Pamplemousse | CutBank | Asian Review of Books | Columbia College Today | Lantern Review | The Antigonish Review | The American Poetry Review | The Literary Review | The Chattahoochee Review | West Branch

One of Maureen McLane's "Seven Poets on the Verge" in Vela

Green Mountain by Yang Jian
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Foreword by Christopher Merrill

MerwinAsia, 2020

Order here or here.

Read reviews in Asian Review of Books and Quill and Parchment.

Read an interview in Poetry Northwest.

"Surveying from Mount Dongliang" is featured on Poetry Daily.

Karma by Yin Lichuan
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Tolsun Books, May 2020

Order at Tolsun Books or Amazon. 

Read some poems in New England Review and Cahiers at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination.

"Life Should Have Been So Serious" is a featured poem on Poetry Daily.

Read more about Karma in this interview, From One Wound, How to Navigate Another (with Dan Beachy-Quick) by H.L. Hix at Inquire.

Read a micro-review in the Kenyon Review.  

Read reviews in the Asian Review of Books and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.

My Mountain Country by Ye Lijun
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Foreword by Christopher Merrill

World Poetry Books, August 2019 

Shortlisted for the 2020 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry

Order here, here, or here.

Read about a poem "Backyard" in Poetry Society of America.

Read some other poems in Poetry Northwest and World Poetry Review (New Poetry in Translation).

Read Sze-Lorrain's interview with Ye Lijun, "Living and Writing in Lishui" in Kenyon Review, and an interview with Sze-Lorrain in Lantern Review.

Read reviews in the Asian Review of Books, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Literary Review, Center for Literary Publishing, The Los Angeles Review, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.

Featured poem at Poetry Society of America's Calling the World.

Featured poem in Poetry Daily [read also a short commentary in newsletter]

Read a roundtable interview with Ye Lijun and Fiona Sze-Lorrain in Asymptote

Not Meant as Poems
Poetry by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
 

Handmade chapbook (limited edition)
The Green Violin, 2018

Read the poem in Poetry Northwest.

Trace by Yu Xiang
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
 

Limited edition (handmade) 
Ji'nan, 2017

Limited edition | US$12 (+ shipping); €11

To purchase: info@vif-editions.com or phf.lorrain@orange.fr

Read two poems in InTranslation.

Sea Summit by Yi Lu
Translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Foreword by Melissa Kwasny

Milkweed Editions, 2016

Finalist for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award (Poetry)

Chosen by the Center for Courage & Renewal as one of the Favorite Courageous Books of 2016 for Poetry

Order here, here, or here.

Read a short essay in Asian Review of Books.

Reviews in Publishers Weekly | Three Percent ["Why This Book Should Win"] | Asian Review of Books | The Literary Review | The Los Angeles Review | CutBank | Heavy Feather Review

Read a related interview with the translator in Foreword Reviews.

Read Sze-Lorrain's interview with Yi Lu in Poetry Society of America.

The City Is a Novel
by Alexey Titarenko
Translated from the French by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Italy: Damiani, 2015

Including essays by Alexey Titarenko, Gabriel Bauret, Sean Corcoran, and Brett Abbott

Named one of Wall Street Journal's 2015 Best Books for Photography Lovers

Read more in The Eye of Photography | L'Œil de la photographie.

Chariots of Women by Amang
Translated from the Chinese (Taiwan) by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Taipei: Fembooks, 2016

A Tree Planted in Summer by Ling Yu
Translated from the Chinese (Taiwan) by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Paris: Vif Éditions (Taiwanese edition), 2015

Order: Youhe Book | Dark Eyes 

Reviews in Wenhsun | The Antigonish Review 

Read four poems in The Offending Adam | Read more in Asian Review of Books

Mark Strand (11 avril 1934 — 29 novembre 2014)

Libération : Mark Strand, un poète vers l'au-delà

Ocean, as Much as Rain 
Stories, Lyrical Prose, Poems from Tibet by Tsering Woeser
Edited and Translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain with Dechen Pemba

USA: Duke University Press, forthcoming 

Read two poems translated by Sze-Lorrain's translation on National Translation Month

Foreword by Pankaj Mishra

Out on February 10, 2026

 

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