Yu Xiuhua

Yu Xiuhua (; born 1976) is a Chinese poet. She lives in the small village of Hengdian, Shipai, Zhongxiang, Hubei, China, and has cerebral palsy resulting in speech and mobility difficulties. Despite this, she still writes poetry, and Xiuhua had written over two thousand poems. In 2014, her poem ''I Crossed Half of China to Sleep with You '' () was reposted frequently in WeChat, leading to a significant increase in her notoriety. In the same year, the ''poem'' magazine, a national magazine of China, published her poetry, which made her work even more famous. ''Still Tomorrow'' a documentary about her rise to fame and relationship with her family as well as her divorce from her husband, was released in 2016, and has been showcased in different film festivals. ''Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm'', a collection of poems and essays in writer, poet, and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain's translation, is out from Astra House in 2021. Provided by Wikipedia