Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed

Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed was born in 1971 in Qoshtagh Village, Guma County. After completing high school he worked for more than ten years in a textile mill, and since 2005 has worked at the Khotan City Bus Station. From the early 1990s, his poems have been regularly published in all of the major Uyghur-language literary journals, and his work has appeared in Joshua L. Freeman’s English translation in Words Without Borders and FWJ Plus. His collected works are currently being published in ten volumes by Kashgar Uyghur Press.