Born in the 1970s in Shanghai as Wu Yadi, Duo Er is a member of the Shanghai Writers' Association and the Songjiang District Writers' Union. Her work has been widely published in such literary magazines as Poetic Exploration , Chinese Poets , Shanghai Poets , Literary Weekly , Tide of Poetry , Flying Skywards , Yan Bian , Shandong Literature , Qingdao Literature , The World of Prose Poetry , Xinmin Evening and Literatures in Chinese , and has been anthologized in such collections as The Annual Collection of Poetry by the Poets Born in the 1970s in China and A Century of Selected Prose Poems . She has published one collection of prose poems, The Black Keys , and has won a prize in the First Shanghai International Poetry Competition in 2016.