Nonfiction Shao Wei (born 1965) is a Chinese-American poet and memoir author.
Shao was born in 1965 and grew up by the Yangtze River in the city of Wanxian, later renamed to the Wanzhou District, Chongqing after the construction of the Three-Gorges Dam.
Living a frugal life and with not much to enjoy, she would take pleasure in reading books and watching Peking Opera.
In 1996 she received a scholarship to study at New York University (NYU) and came to the U.S. as a graduate student.
[2] She taught Introductory Creative Writing at UT Dallas, and formerly taught at the College of New Rochelle, Rosa Parks Campus, and Chinese at the China Institute, in New York City.