Mei-mei Berssenbrugge was born in Beijing and grew up in Massachusetts. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Empathy (Station Hill Press), Nest (Kelsey Street Press) and I Love Artists, New and Selected Poems (University of California Press). A collaboration about weather with artist Kiki Smith is forthcoming from Lelong Gallery and a collaboration with her husband Richard Tuttle about communicating with plants will open in Munich, fall, 2012. She lives in New York City and northern New Mexico.
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, image courtesy of the author.
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