Zeyar Lynn lives in Rangoon. He is a poet and critic, writer, translator and language instructor. For more than two decades he has fostered a wider appreciation of postmodern and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry forms into Burmese. His own collections include Distinguishing features (2006), Real/life: prose poems (2009) and Kilimanjaro (2010). He has also translated into Burmese various Western poets such as Sylvia Plath, Wisława Szymborska and John Ashbery, as well as a number of volumes on poetics.