Na Ye:  graduated from the Chinese Department of Nanjing University.  She used to work in news media and is now a writer. She published poetry collections such as The Wind Rises, Book at Bedtime, Resume, and God is in the Things We Like.  Winner of the 3rd Lu Xun Literature Award, People’s Literature Award, October Literature Award, and the Tianwen Poet Award.  She now lives in Chongqing.

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.