Chime Lama

A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities

Chime Lama (འཆི་མེད་ཆོས་སྒྲོན།) is a Tibetan American writer, translator and multi-genre artist based in New York. She holds an MA in Divinity from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from the City University of New York: Brooklyn College. She serves as the Poetry Editor of Yeshe: A Journal of Tibetan Literature, Arts and Humanities. Her work won the 2020 Himan Brown Award in Creative Writing, the 2021 Bonnie Perlsweig Mintz Award in Editing, and has been featured in Exposition Review, The Margins, Stonecoast Review, Street Cake, Volume Poetry, Tribes Magazine, and Tricycle, among others. Her poetry has been translated into Portuguese, and appears in Cadernos de Literatura em Tradução, n. 24 (Notebooks of Literature in Translation), edited by Shelly Bhoil, and translated by Thiago Ponce de Moraes.

Dechen Pemba

High Peaks Pure Earth

Dechen Pemba is editor of the translations website High Peaks Pure Earth (https://highpeakspureearth.com). Dechen was born in the UK and graduated from University College London with a degree in English and German Literature. After several years working as a lobbyist and campaigner on Tibet in Berlin, Germany, she lived in Beijing from 2006-2008 learning Chinese at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing and teaching English. After completing a Masters in Chinese Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, Dechen has been involved in several long term projects such as Filming for Tibet, Tibet Film Festival, Tibetan Writers Group and smartvote Tibet. Dechen also serves as a researcher and consultant on Tibet-related issues.