Ning Yaoyu:  young poet, tea grower, maker in Yunnan, flight attendant, student of Wang Ping’s Poetry and Translation Workshops.

Yu Yan:  (b.1967), in Chongqing.  In 1985, he began to publish poetry works in Stars poetry journal and Poetry Newspaper.  He stopped writing in the early nineties but later resumed in 2015. Thenceforth, he published hundreds of poems successively in literary journals such as People’s Literature, Chinese Writers, October, Flower City, Zhongshan, and Writers.  His poetry collections, include Criticism and Self–Criticism.  He now lives in Beijing and Chengdu.

Xiong Yan:  (b.1980) in Weng’an, Guizhou.  He now lives now in Chengdu.

Gong Xuemin:  (b.1965), a native to Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan.  He started writing poems in 1987, and has published several books of poetry, including the long poem The Long March and an annotated edition of the Tang-dynasty poet Li Shangyin.  He is the editor-in-chief of the poetry magazine Stars.  He resides in Chengdu, China.