Anna Yin was born in China, and immigrated to Canada in 1999. She won the 2005 Ted Plantos Memorial Award, 2010 MARTY Award for her poetry, and other awards. in 2007 her poems in English and Chinese and ten translations by her were in a Canadian Studies textbook used by Humber College. In 2011 her book Wings Toward Sunlight was published by Mosaic Press. CBC Radio and Rogers TV interviewed her several times. She was a finalist for Canada's Top 25 Canadian Immigrants Awards 2011 and 2012. Her new collection Inhaling the Silence will be published in 2013. Visit her website for more information. [Read]