• Julian Gewirtz is a China expert who speaks fluent Mandarin.
• Graduated from Harvard, was a Rhodes Scholar, and earned a PhD at Oxford
• Served in the Obama administration
• Published articles on Asia for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Guardian, Financial Times, Harper’s, and Foreign Policy.
• His book Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China was published by Harvard University Press
• As a poet, Gewirtz allows for fierce observations between the state and a solitary worker, asking us where does justice exist and for whom. 
• Gewirtz can home in on a single character or a historical moment, allowing the reader to interpret the connections between people and place.
• Gewirtz has worked and lived in China, lending first-hand experience and insight into his narrative voice.
• His poems refer to and utilize historical accounts, artwork, news-clippings, and personal encounters.
• Gewirtz has published poetry criticism and nonfiction essays in The Economist, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry Foundation, and The Washington Post.