Ye Chun wins the Autumn House Poetry Prize with Child
Selected by Felicia Zamora, the collection will be published in autumn 2027 and extends a career spanning poetry, fiction and translation.
Ye Chun’s Child has won the 2026 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Poet Felicia Zamora selected the manuscript, which Autumn House Press will publish in autumn 2027. The judges highlighted writing that draws the extraordinary from everyday life through images that remain both tender and unsettling. Ye Chun has already published the poetry collections Travel Over Water and Lantern Puzzle; her novel Straw Dogs of the Universe won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. The award confirms a body of work that crosses genres and languages, as Chun is also a translator of Chinese poetry. Child will reach readers after a year of editorial development, turning the prize from a finishing line into the public beginning of a new book.