Yun Wang

Poet and cosmologist Yun Wang began writing poetry as a child, and attended Tsinghua University in Beijing to study physics at age sixteen. Wang has authored three poetry books, "The Book of Mirrors" (Winner of the Twenty-Sixth White Pine Press Poetry Prize, 2021), "The Book of Totality" (Salmon Poetry Press, 2015), and "The Book of Jade" (winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Story Line Press, 2002), as well as two poetry chapbooks: "Horse by the Mountain Stream" (Word Palace Press, 2016) and "The Carp" (Bull Thistle Press, 1994). Wang's book of poetry translation, "Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po", was published by White Pine Press in 2019. She has translated the Daoist scripture, Dao De Jing, as poetry, in collaboration with Li-Young Lee (W.W. Norton, October 2024). Both books include the Chinese original face-to-face with the English translation. Wang received a Ph.D. in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Florida, NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, and Princeton University Observatory. She was a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma until 2017, and a Senior Research Scientist at Caltech since 2015. Wang was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for her leadership in dark energy research in 2012. She is the author of "Dark Energy" (Wiley/VCH, 2010), a graduate textbook, and leads science on space missions to explore cosmic mysteries.