Susan Wan Dolling is a Chinese American writer who was born in Hong Kong, attended the Diocesan Girls' School, studied in Japan, and graduated from Princeton University with an AB in English and Creative Writing, and PhD in Comparative Literature. She has taught English and Literature at Fordham University and Chinese Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. Her translations of modern Chinese literature and classical Chinese poetry can be found in such publications as Poetry Magazine, Words Without Border, Two Lines, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature, and Renditions. Two excerpts of her unpublished novel, The Price of Sunshine, is on the website, The Write Launch. Her translation of Wang Wen-hsing's Modernist novel, Family Catastrophe is in University of Hawaii Press's Fiction from Modern China Series.