臧棣，1964 年 4 月生在北京。现任教于北京大学中文系，北京大学中国诗歌研究院研究员。出版诗集有《燕园纪事》（1998）、《风吹草动》（2000）、《新鲜的荆棘》（2002）、《宇宙是扁的》（2008）、《空城计》（2009）、《未名湖》（2010）、《慧根丛书》（2011）、《小挽歌丛书》（2012）、《骑手和豆浆》（2015）、《必要的天使》（2015）、《慧根》（英文诗集）、《最简单的人类动作入门》（2017）等。曾获《南方文坛》杂志“2005年度批评家奖”， “1979-2005 中国十大先锋诗人”（2006），“中国十大新锐诗歌批评家”（2007），第七届“华语文学传媒大奖·2008 年度诗人奖”（2009），2015星星诗刊年度诗人奖。2015 年 5 月应邀参加德国柏林诗歌节，2016 年参加德国不莱梅诗歌节，2017 年 5 月参加荷兰鹿特丹国际诗歌节，2017 年 10 月美国普林斯顿诗歌节。

Zang Di, born in Beijing in April 1964, was admitted to Chinese Department of  Peking University in September 1983 and received a PhD in Literature from Peking University in July 1997, where he has been teaching since 1996 and is currently a professor in Chinese Department and editor of the journal New Poetry Criticism. He briefly worked as a journalist for China News Agency from 1990 to 1993. He has ever won numerous poetic prizes and awards including Pearl River International Poetry Festival Award in 2007, Perfect Chinese Literature Award from Changjiang River Literature & Art in 2008, the Poet of the Year 2008 Award from Chinese Literature Media Awards, etc. His many honors include one of Contemporary China's Top Ten Prominent Young Poets (2005), 1979-2005 China’s Top Ten Avant-Courier Poets (2006), China's Top Ten Rising Poetry Critics (2007), Contemporary China’s Top Ten Rising Poets (2007), Chinese Poetry Biennial Top Ten Poets (2008), etc. He is the author of several collections of poetry, which are Memory of Yan Yuan (1998), The Rustle of Leaves in the Wind (2000), Fresh Thorns (2002), The Universe is Flat (2008), and Empty-City Strategy .