About Julia Min — a creative bridge-builder between cultures, a gentle lady who swings a club and a verse with equal grace.

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At the young age of 19, Julia earned her B.A. in English Language and Literature from Huazhong Normal University in 1982 and dove straight into teaching at Huanggang Teachers' College in Huangzhou — the very riverside town where the legendary poet Su Dongpo reached the peak of his poetry, calligraphy, and prose, lifting Huangzhou's cultural image ever since. Carved into stone at Red Cliff, Dongpo's verses became Julia's daily companions. That early spark with poetry soon grew into a bold collaborative translation project with her professor, Gordon Osing, and her colleague, Prof. Huang — Julia, then just 23 and the only bilingual member of the team, happily found herself at the heart of it all. Their published translations include Blooming Alone in Winter (1990) and Forever Tonight at My Window (1992) — two tender volumes that still bring her a quiet, glowing pride.

 

From poems to putts — Julia's journey took a most delightful swing next. With an M.A. degree, she became a lecturer at Shenzhen University in 1988, where she co-founded and coordinated the China-Scotland Golf Education Program, escorted and funded by The R&A at St Andrews and the China Golf Association. For five years, she worked in both Scotland and Shenzhen. At 50, with the same open-hearted curiosity that once led her to Su Dongpo's stone carvings, she embraced a fresh adventure: teaching translation at Monash University in Australia. Now she has happily settled her days with this website while playing regular golf at Riversdale Golf Club in Victoria, where each new English poem comes with a smile, and each social game brings new friendship.

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Julia Min believes that poetry is not for translation — rather, the art can only be reborn through recreation. This belief shapes her unique style — a recreation that carries fidelity with breathing grace in poetic melody between languages.