Son of a sailor and a nurse, Stacey Duff was born in the Year of the Rat. He was raised in Arkansas (US) and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University in 1997, He moved to Beijing in 2003, where he has since written about Chinese contemporary art for magazines like Art Review (UK) and the Shanghai-based magazine, ArtZineChina. His published poems appear in magazines like Conjunctions, Skanky Possum and Octopus, and forthcoming work appears soon in the new San Francisco magazine, Canteen. He is currently working on a series of short stories set in Beijing set after a tragic apocalyptic event. When not writing, he teaches at the Beijing Institute of Technology, including courses on American Political Institutions and Modern World History.
Since 2005, he has reported extensively on Chinese contemporary art as the art editor for Time Out Beijing, where his publications have included in-depth features on China's post-70s Generation of artists and its burgeoning commercial cartoon artists; profiles of Beijing-based concept artist Ai Weiwei and painter Zhu Wei; as well as more than 100 reviews on the city's expanding landscape of artists, curators and galleries.
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