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Sui-Yun is a sino-peruvian poet born in Iquitos, Peru (1955) Sui Yun grew up as a child surrounded with chinese luxury items from her chinese parents store. From silk stalks to porcelain and jade, she enjoyed the texture and view of items so different from her hometown Iquitos, where the reality boiled another concept of things and life.

At Roosevelt High School in Lima, she began discovering what poetry was, thanks to Creative Writing class with irish teacher Brian Kirwan and her schoolmate Ramon Mujica, who acted as a constant motor to her awakening in writing and reading classical english, spanish and french poets.

Sui Yun is the only tusán published poet since Pedro Zulén. With her poetry collection Cresciente, Licoln Press 1979 in San Francisco, USA shows her first poems in english of a lyrical taoist nature and some in spanish. Meeting poets Carlos Edmundo de Ory and Pablo del Barco in Seville, Spain (1979) marked for her a new challenge to write in spanish, which she accomplished in her second poetry book Rosa fálica, Loto Ediciones 1983, Lima after winning an Honorific Mention in Poetry Award Mairena, Puerto Rico, 1981.

Rosa fálica is rich in symbols and metaphors, while displaying a cosmic approach in encounters with the loved one. Sui Yun has presented her poems in La Maison de L´Amerique Latine and L´Union Latine, Paris 1999 with other three latin women poets. In 2004 she attended the United Nations invitation to Giornata Mondialle della Poesía in Frascati, Italy after the boycott in Centro Cultural de España, Lima where she briefly exposed a cosmic and environmental concern with her poetry collection Sueños de otorongo, Loto Ediciones 2004, Lima.

Other publications are: Soy un animal con el misterio de un ángel, ediciones Ëter 2000, Lima. Canciones para el mendigo y el rey, translated into german by Curt Meyer-Classon. Ediciones Loto, Wiesbaden, Germany (2001)

Her original voice in poetry has been subject of study in Las Poetas se desnudan, from Prof. Roland Forgues and Poetas Hispanoamericanas from Prof. Ramiro Lagos, Amazonian Literary Review from Nicomédes Suarez-Araúz, Smith College among other studies dealing with cultural and social changes from Maan Lin and Nuria Vilanova.

Sui Yun has been recently included in Dragons in the land of the condor, from Prof. Ignacio López-Calvo from University of California, and edited by Arizona University Press. October 2014