Yun Wang is a cosmologist by trade and started writing poetry in her early teens. Her father recited classical Chinese poetry to her when she was an infant. Poetry seems as natural and essential as air to her.

Yun Wang's first poetry book, titled "The Book of Jade", won the Nicholas   Roerich Poetry Prize from Story Line Press and was published in 2002.   Her   poetry chap book, titled "The Carp", was published by Bull Thistle Press in 1994.   She has published poems in numerous literary journals, including the Kenyon Review, Green Mountains Review, International Quarterly, International Poetry Review, The Pennsylvania Review,The Connecticut Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Webster Review, Visions, The Endless Mountains Review, Voices International, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Janus Head, Cimarron Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Tipton Poetry Journal,   and The Pedestal Magazine. Yun Wang's poems have been included in literary anthologies   ``Multi-cultural Resources for English Teachers'', Simon & Schuster (1996); ``PREMONITIONS:   The Kaya Anthology of New Asian American Poetry'', Kaya Production (1994); and ``EARTH TONES'', Vergin press (1993).

Yun Wang's translations of classical Chinese poetry have appeared in Willow Springs, Poetry Canada Review, Delos, and Confluence.