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Fion Tse was born and raised in Hong Kong and translates between Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin) and English. She studied comparative literature and East Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago and is now pursuing an MFA in literary translation at the University of Iowa as an Iowa Arts Fellow. Jan Steyn, director of the MFA in Literary Translation program at the University of Iowa, served as the faculty sponsor for Tse’s submission.