Hui Luo, 1973- , is a Chinese writer and a translator of Chinese poetry. He was born in Hubei, China in 1973. He received his BA from Wuhan University in Wuhan, China before attending Indiana University to obtain his MA in Comparative Literature. His Master's thesis centered on translating Zheng Danyi's poetry. In 2009, he received his PhD in Chinese Literature from the University of Toronto. His dissertation, titled "The Ghost of Liaozhai: Pu Songling's ghostlore and its history of reception," examined a collection of Chinese ghost stories and their vernacular adaptations into literature, theater, and film. From 2010 to 2014 Luo worked as the director of the Confucius Institute at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and from 2015 to 2016 he worked as the director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation. He is a well-known translator of modern Chinese poetry, with several of his translations appearing in major literary magazines and anthologies in North America and Asia.