Li Qingzhao (1084 – ca. 1151) was a Chinese woman poet of the Song Dynasty. She and her husband, a government official, were fond of collecting antiques, art, and literature.  Her short poems or ci are composed to the tunes of popular songs in her day, such as “Mulberry Picking,” “As If a Reverie,” and “Stream of Washed Silk.” While her poems of youth express the joys of marital love, her poems of age grieve the loss of her departed spouse, her subsequent displacements after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the trials of surviving in a war-torn nation. Li also wrote literary criticism and corresponded with academics. About fifty of her ci survive today.