Wang Hui-Ming was a poet and visual artist who primarily resided in Amherst, Massachusetts, and created several series of woodblock prints in collaboration with other poets. Much of the information for this section comes from Hui-Ming's 1977 application for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Grant, which is a part of this collection. Born in Wuhu, China in 1922, Hui-Ming attended the University of Amoy (Xiamen University) from 1940-42. During World War II, Hui-Ming served as an Interpreter for the United States Army and The United States Army Air Force in the China-Burma-India Theater and in the United States. His first official publication was an English-Chinese Dictionary of Military Terms compiled during the war, which was published by the United States Army CBI Theater Training Command. After the War, Hui-Ming attended the University of Missouri, and graduated with a B.S. in 1949. In 1951, he began teaching Chinese language and literature courses at Yale University while simultaneously undertaking an M.A. at New York University, from which he graduated in 1953. Hui-Ming became a U.S. citizen in 1956 and continued teaching at Yale until 1961. From 1961-1964 Hui-Ming took up a position as the Head of the Department of Art at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island. From 1964-1988, Hui-Ming was employed as a professor of art at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Hui-Ming was well-regarded as both a translator and poet, as well as a visual artist; he participated in over 25 individual exhibitions and 15 group exhibitions for his literary and visual work between 1958 and 1977, including appearances in the Pratt Institute Galleries, the Smithsonian Travelling Exhibition, and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.

Hui-Ming founded his own print-making studio, Epoh Studios, in Amherst, Massachusetts in the mid-1960s. Under the imprint of Epoh Studios, Hui-Ming collaborated regularly with other poets, putting the words of their previously unpublished poems into print form and sometimes creating illustrations of his own. He worked with many poets, including Siv Cedering Fox, James Agee, Raymond Patterson, and particularly closely with Robert Bly and William Stafford, to create these prints. He also occasionally translated English poems into Chinese, and Chinese Poems into English; one of these, the primary project for his application to the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Grant, involved the translation of a series of poems by Mao Tse-Tung into English with accompanying commentary. Hui-Ming had previously published translations in the Yale Literary Magazine, The American Poetry Review, and The San Francisco Book Review. Hui-Ming retired from his professorship at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1988.