沈苇（1965—），诗人、散文家，生于浙江湖州，毕业于浙江师范大学中文系。1988年至2018年在新疆生活工作30年，曾任新疆作协常务副主席、秘书长，《西部》文学杂志主编。现居杭州，浙江传媒学院教授，中国作协诗歌委员会委员。著有诗集《在瞬间逗留》《沈苇诗选》《新疆诗章》《数一数沙吧》《异乡人》《诗江南》《论诗》等12部，散文集《新疆词典》《正午的诗神》《书斋与旷野》《丝路：行走的植物》等10部，另有学术著作、编著等多部。获鲁迅文学奖、华语文学传媒大奖年度诗人、十月文学奖、屈原诗歌奖、刘丽安诗歌奖等。作品被译成10多种文字。
Shen Wei (1965—) is a poet and prose writer born in Huzhou, Zhejiang, and graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of Zhejiang Normal University. Shen Wei lived and worked in Xinjiang for 30 years from 1988 to 2018, served as the Executive Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the Xinjiang Writers Association, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Western. Shen Wei currently lives in Hangzhou. He is a professor at the Communication University of Zhejiang and a member of the Poetry Committee of the China Writers Association.
Shen Wei’s works include 12 collections of poems: Instant Staying, Selected Poems of Shen Wei, Xinjiang Poems, Counting the Sands, Stranger, Poems of Jiangnan, Poetics, etc., as well as 10 collections of essays: Xinjiang Dictionary, Erato of Noon, Books and Wilderness, The Silk Road: Walking Plants, etc. He has also authored and edited several academic works and books.
Literary awards Shen Wei acquired include the Lu Xun Literature Prize, the Poet of the Year in Chinese Literature and Media Awards, the October Literature Prize, the Qu Yuan Poetry Prize, the Liu Lian Poetry Prize, etc. His works have been translated into over 10 languages