Yam Gong Born in 1949, Yam Gong, the pen name of Lau Yee-ching, is a celebrated Hong Kong poet whose honors include the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers’ Literature Award, and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for his first book And So You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (1997). He later published an extended edition of this collection titled And So Moving a Stone You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (2010).

James Shea is the author of two books of poetry, The Lost Novel and Star in the Eye, both from Fence Books. He is a recipient of grants from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Hong Kong Arts Development Council, National Endowment for the Arts, and Vermont Arts Council. 

Dorothy Tse is a Hong Kong fiction writer whose books include Snow and Shadow (translated by Nicky Harman) and Owlish (translated by Natascha Bruce, forthcoming). A co-founder of Hong Kong’s leading literary magazine, Fleurs des Lettres, she teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University.