Un Sio San

Un Sio San is a Chinese poet and writer from Macau. She has published six collections of poetry, and her work has won several honors, including the inaugural New Star–People's Literature Prize of Poetry in China, and the Henry Luce Foundation Chinese Poetry Fellowship.

Biography Un Sio San was born in Macau. She completed her undergraduate education at Peking University, studying Chinese Language and Art (film and television production), and her master's degree in East Asian and Pacific Asia studies at Toronto University.

Career Un Sio San has published six collections of poetry: Exile in the Blossom Time, Wonderland, Evolution of Love, Here, Naked Picnic, and Bitter Lotus Seed. She has also published a book of essays titled Boisterous Islands. She was also the lyricist who composed for Macau's first original indoor opera, A Fragrant Dream. She has spoken about the challenges of publishing poetry in Macau, and about the access that Macanese writers have to other Chinese publishers, including those in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan.