When the Tiger Weeps

Mike O’Connor is a poet and a translator of Chinese literature. A native son of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, he spent more than a decade farming in the Dungeness-Sequim River Valley and cedar logging and tree-planting in the Olympic Mountains. From 1979 until 1995, he lived mostly in the Republic of China, Taiwan, studying Chinese language and culture while working as a journalist. A MFA graduate of the Jack Kerouac School, Naropa University, and a recipient of a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he currently resides with his wife Liu Ling-hui, a dance teacher and choreographer, in Port Townsend, Washington. When the Tiger Weeps is his eighth book.Mike O'Connor is the author of 'When the Tiger Weeps', published 2004 under ISBN 9781929355181 and ISBN 1929355181.