About the Author

Biography

A Writer of Myth and Motion

Tung-Hui Hu is a native of San Francisco and the author of Mine, a poetry collection published in spring 2007 by Ausable Press, now part of Copper Canyon Press.

Hu holds degrees from Princeton, Michigan, and UC Berkeley. He has worked as a political consultant and computer scientist, professions that inform the vivid awareness of history, place, and human behavior found throughout his writing.

Tung-Hui Hu is a poet whose work grows out of the ground it describes: repair, return, and the slow labor of excavating meaning from soil, empire, and personal history. His debut collection, Mine, published in the spring of 2007 by Ausable Press, later folded into Copper Canyon Press, reads as a sequence of lyric meditations on strikes, ploughshares, seed, water, and the eaten dirt of a country still in motion. Across these poems, myths and daily life interlock, and the writing moves with a blunt yet resonant clarity, avoiding sentimentality in favor of images that unfold plainly and freshly composed.