Xi Xi (also known as Sai Sai), penname of Cheung Yin, was born in Shanghai in 1937. In 1950, she moved to Hong Kong. After graduating from the Grantham College of Education, she worked as a primary school teacher for several years before retiring to focus on writing full-time. Her fiction and poetry have won numerous awards throughout the world, including the Newman Prize in Chinese Literature (Poetry) at the University of Oklahoma in the United States and the Cikada Prize in Sweden in 2019.
Ho Fuk-yan is a Hong Kong writer and poet.
Jennifer Feeley holds a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University. She has translated several books from Chinese into English, including Not Written Words: Selected Poetry of Xi Xi , which won the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize.