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Associate Professor
Department of English
Stanford University
Adam Johnson is a Professor of English with emphasis in creative writing at Stanford University. Winner of a Whiting Award and Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Berlin, he is the author of several books, including Fortune Smiles, which won the 2015 National Book Award, and the novel The Orphan Master’s Son, which was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in Esquire, GQ, Playboy, Harper's Magazine, Granta, Tin House and The Best American Short Stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of California, Los Angeles
Brian Kim Stefans earned a BA at from Bard College and attended the CUNY Graduate School for two years before earning an MFA in electronic literature from Brown University. He has eight books in poetry and collections which includes experimental essays on the role of algorithm in poetry and culture. He lives in Hollywood where he teaches poetry, new media, and screenplay studies in the UCLA English department.
客遠文
Professor
Department of English
University of Macau
Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a well knownwell-known Australian poet, scholar and visual artist, and Professor of English at the University of Macau, where he has taught Creative Writing and Literature for the last sixteen years. The most recent of Kit Kelen’s dozen English language poetry books is Scavengers Season,published by Puncher and Wattman in 2014. Kelen has published two scholarly volumes about poetry: Poetry, Consciousness, Community (Rodopi 2009) and City of Poets – Exploring Macao Poetry Today (ASM, 2009). Kit Kelen is the Editor of the new cross-arts international on-line journal the wonderbook and is Literary Editor for Postcolonial Text. In 2016 he is co-ordinating Project 366, a daily on-line collaboration of poets and
artists.
鄺可怡
Associate Professor
Department of Chinese
Language and Literature
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
鄺可怡，香港中文大學中國語言及文學哲學碩士、法國巴黎第八大學藝術碩士、法國巴黎第四大學(巴黎－索邦)法國文學及比較文學博士。現任香港中文大學中國語言及文學系副教授，專研中國現當代文學、二十世紀歐美文學批評、比較文學。
Dr. KWONG Ho Yee Connie is an associate professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her Ph.D. in French and Comparative Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Her research interests include twentieth-century literary criticism, modern and contemporary Chinese literature, and comparative literature.
陳子謙
Lecturer
City University of Hong Kong
陳子謙，現職大專講師，曾任「筆可能」課程總監，與郭詩詠、高俊傑合編《雲上播種──給寫作導師的十堂課》及《樹下栽花──寫作教育經驗談》。著有《豐饒的陰影》、《怪物描寫》，曾獲香港藝術發展獎藝術新秀獎。
Mr. CHAN Tsz Him is currently teaching at the Community College of City University. He was the programme director of “Get It Write!” He received the Award for Young Artist from HKADC. He has written Abundant Shadows (Fengrao de yinying) and Descriptions of Monsters (guaiwu miaoxie). His major co-edited books include Cloud Seeding: Ten Lessons for Creative Writing Teachers (yunshang bozhong ──geixiezuo daoshi de shitangke) and Growing Flowers Under a Tree: Experiences in Creative Writing Education (shuxia zaihua──xiezuo jiaoyu jingyantan).
David James Karashima
Assistant Professor (Creative Writing)
School of International Liberal Studies
Waseda University
David Karashima is an assistant professor of creative writing at the School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University. He has translated into English works by a number of contemporary Japanese authors including Hitomi Kanehara, Yasutaka Tsutsui, and Shinji Ishii, co-edited (together with Elmer Luke) the anthology March Was Made of Yarn: Writers Respond to the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown, and is International Editor of Granta Japan. He has served as director of a number of literary programs including the Tokyo International Literary Festival, and his novel Kamimura Kikaku was selected for a new writing prize organized by Kodansha.
Associate Professor
Department of English
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Eddie Tay’s research areas are linked to his creative interests in poetry and street photography. He has published research in the areas of creative writing and street photography. He teaches undergraduate courses such as Reading Poetry and Creative Writing. He also teaches the postgraduate course Writing, Photography and Social Media. His recent book, Dreaming Cities, consists of both street photography and poetry. The collection is one of many titles for sale in book vending machines in Singapore as part of a larger entrepreneurial and cultural project.
戴凡
Professor
Department of English
Sun Yat-sen University
Fan DAI is Professor of English, and founding director of The Sun Yat-sen University Center for English-language Creative Writing. She teaches Creative Writing in English as a foreign language and a bilingual creative writing course at Sun Yat-sen University in China. She writes bilingually and has published 4 collections of nonfiction in Chinese, a novel Butterfly Lovers in English, and has contributed to journals such as Drunken Boat, Ninth Letter, Peril and Asia Literary Review. She was a 2012-2013 Fulbright Research Scholar at University of Iowa. She runs the Sun Yat-sen University International Writers’ Residency.
韓麗珠
Local Writer and Educator
著有《失去洞穴》、《離心帶》、《縫身》、《灰花》、《風箏家族》、《輸水管森林》、《寧靜的獸》等。曾獲中國時報開卷十大好書中文創作類、亞洲週刊中文十大小說、香港中文文學雙年獎小說組推薦獎、第20屆聯合文學小說新人獎中篇小說首獎、香港書獎2016。
HON Lai Chu is a Hong Kong author of several novels, including Body-sewing (《縫身》), as well as The Border of Centrifugation (《離心帶》). She won the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for fiction with her anthology of short stories Silent Creature in 2004. Her 2006 novel Kite Family, first published as a novella, won the New Writer’s Novella first prize from Taiwan’s Unitas Literary Association; the extended version was one of the 2008’s Books of the Year by China Times in Taiwan. Kite Family, as well as Grey Flower, were selected as Top 10 Chinese Novels World-wide for the year 2008 and 2009 respectively. She has recently published a short story collection, Losing Caves (《失去洞穴》).
郭詩詠
Assistant Professor
Hang Seng Management College
郭詩詠，畢業於香港中文大學中文系，獲哲學博士。現為恒生管理學院中文系助理教授、《字花》編委。曾任教於香港浸會大學，編有《房間》（李智良著）、《雲上播種——給寫作導師的10堂讀》（合編）、《樹下栽花——寫作教育經驗談》（合編）等，研究論文散見《現代中文學刊》、《現代中國》、《中山人文學報》、《電影欣賞》等。
Dr. KWOK Sze Wing is an assistant professor in the Department of Chinese at Hang Seng Management College. She received her PhD from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before joining HSMC, she taught at Hong Kong Baptist University. She is now also a member of the editorial board of Fleurs des Lettres. Her research interests include modern Chinese literature and culture, literature and film, Hong Kong literature and creative writing education. Major co-edited books include Cloud Seeding: Ten Lessons for Creative Writing Teachers (yunshang bozhong ──geixiezuo daoshi de shitangke) and Growing Flowers Under a Tree: Experiences in Creative Writing Education (shuxia zaihua──xiezuo jiaoyu jingyantan).
關夢南
Founder, Editor
Hong Kong Pupil Magazine
原名關木衡。廣東開平人。1946年生。
詩人、作家，資深文學教育工作者。1969年與友人創辦《秋螢詩刊》。曾獲｢大拇指詩獎｣ (1985年) ，得獎作品〈傷口〉、中文文學雙年獎冠軍 (2003年) ，得獎作品《關夢南詩選》；曾在《快報》、《星島晚報》及《星島日報》撰寫專欄，1992年主編《文藝氣象》、1993至1998年編｢陽光校園｣文藝版，2002年及2007年分別編《詩潮》及《小說風》，現主編《香港中學生文藝月刊》、《大頭菜文藝月刊》及《香港小學生文藝月刊》。
Mr. KWAN Mung Nan was born in Kaiping in Guangdong province. He is a poet, writer, and experienced literary education worker. He is the co-founder of Qiuying Poetry Journal. He received the Damuzi Poetry Award in 1985 and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature in 2003. He was a columnist for Kuaibao and Singtao Daily. He edited a number of literary journals such as Wenyi qixiang, Wave of Poetry (Shichao) and Winds of Fiction (Xiaoshuifeng). He is currently the editor of Hong Kong Secondary School Literary Magazine, Kohlrabi Literary Magazine, and Hong Kong Primary School Literary Magazine.
潘國靈
Lecturer
Chinese University of Hong Kong
潘國靈為香港小說家及文化評論人。著有小說、散文、詩集十多種，最新著作有長篇小說《寫托邦與消失咒》。曾獲青年文學獎小說高級組冠軍、中文文學創作獎、香港中文文學雙年獎小說推薦獎、香港書獎等。2006年獲亞洲文化協會頒發「利希慎基金獎助金」，翌年赴美交流及遊學一年。2011年獲香港藝術發展局頒發「年度最佳藝術家獎（文學藝術）」。
Lawrence PUN is a Hong Kong novelist and cultural critic. He has authored a dozen of books from fiction, prose to poetry, among them included his latest novel Writopia and the Spell of Disappearance. He has received a number of literary awards such as the Hong Kong Youth Literary Award, Award for Creative Writing in Chinese, Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature (Novel Commendation) and the Hong Kong Book Prize. In 2006, he won the Lee Hysan Foundation Scholarship from the Asian Cultural Council, to spend a year in New York and Iowa in 2007. In 2011 he received “Award for Best Artist (Literary Arts)” presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Associate Professor
Creative Writing and English Literature
Yonsei University/Underwood International College
Loren Goodman is the author of Famous Americans, selected by W.S. Merwin for the 2002 Yale Series of Younger Poets, Suppository Writing (2008) and New Products (2010). He is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English Literature at Yonsei University/Underwood International College in Seoul, Korea, and serves as the UIC Creative Writing Director.
Teaching Fellow
The Education University of Hong Kong
Nicholas WONG is the author of Crevasse (Kaya Press, 2015), winner of the 28th Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. He is currently teaching at the Education University of Hong Kong. A real Asian poet, he was born and lives in Hong Kong, where he is the Vice President of PEN HK.
Associate Professor
School of English
University of Hong Kong
Page Richards is an Associate Professor in the School of English at the University of Hong Kong. Holding a Ph.D. from Harvard University and Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Boston University, she has also studied at the Playwrights' Theatre in Boston and has contributed to theatre and film production in Hollywood. Richards received a national Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities in the U.S., Outstanding Teaching Award from the Faculty of Arts at HKU, a Vermont Studio Writer’s Fellowship for Poetry and Translation, among many other awards in critical and creative studies. She publishes in poetry, American literature, drama, and performance. She currently directs the HKU MFA in Creative Writing, the HKU Black Box, the HKU International Poetry Prize, the Writers’ Series, and production of Yuan Yang: A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing, among other programmes in the HKU Creative Studio.
Robin Hemley
Director, Writers’ Centre
Professor of Humanities
Writer-in-Residence
Department of Humanities
Yale-NUS College
Singapore
Robin Hemley has published twelve books of fiction and nonfiction and has won numerous awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes in Nonfiction and Fiction, the Nelson Algren Award for Fiction from the Chicago Tribune, and many others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, he also directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at Iowa for nine years and is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Iowa. He currently directs the Writing Program and is Writer-in-Residence at Yale-NUS College, Singapore, and is an Associate Faculty Member at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Sandra Lim is the author of The Wilderness (W.W. Norton, 2014), selected by Louise Glück for the 2013 Barnard Women Poets Prize, and a previous collection of poetry, Loveliest Grotesque (Kore Press, 2006). A 2015 Pushcart Prize winner, she has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Jentel Foundation, and the Getty Research Institute. Lim was born in Seoul, Korea and educated at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and lives in Cambridge, MA.
Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Chicago
Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry—Facts for Visitors and Voyager (both published by the University of California Press)—as well as a scholarly study, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2012). He has written on contemporary poetry for various publications, including The New York Times, The New Republic, and Lana Turner. The recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Reddy is an Associate Professor in English at the University of Chicago.
鄧小樺
Curator
House of Hong Kong Literature
鄧小樺為香港詩人、作家、文化評論人。曾獲中文文學獎散文組冠軍、新詩組亞軍、「大學文學獎」新詩組冠軍。文學雜誌《字花》創刊編輯之一，現為編委。著有詩集《不曾移動瓶子》、《眾音的反面》、散文集《斑駁日常》、《若無其事》、訪問集《問道於民》等。編有《走著瞧——香港新銳作者六家》、《永遠不能明白的電影經典》、《一般的黑夜一樣黎明——香港六四詩選》、《字花十年選散文卷：浮雲與剃刀》等。於各大專院校、藝術中心及中學教授寫作及文學閱讀課程。
TANG Siu Wa (poet, essayist; Hong Kong) is the author of the poetry collection Bottle Unmoved; A Motley of Banalities, a volume of prose writing; and the collected interviews, Asking Directions from the People. She was the editor of Wait and See: Collected Works of Six New Hong Kong Writers, The Tomb of Film and The Same Darkness Befalls Dawn: Hong Kong June Fourth Poetry. Tang Siu-wa is a founding editor of the literary magazine Fleurs des Lettres and now the curator of The House of Hong Kong Literature. She is a literary organizer and human rights activist, teaches writing at various institutions, art centres and secondary schools, and contributes regular columns, interviews and criticism to major newspapers, magazines, and radio programs.
黃淑嫻
Associate Professor
Department of Chinese
Lingnan University
Dr. WONG Mary Shuk Han is associate professor of Chinese Department at Lingnan University. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Comparative Literature of University of Hong Kong. She has published widely on film and literature. She is the author of From Kafka: Essays on film and literature (2015), Feminine Writing: Cinema, Literature and Everyday Live (2014) and Hong Kong Cinema: Writer, literature and cinema (2013). Major edited books include “Hong Kong Literature and Culture of the 1950s series” (6 volumes)(co-ed, 2013), Hong Kong Literature and Cinema (co-ed, 2012) and Liu Yichang and Hong Kong Modernism (co-ed, 2010). Her short story collection Surviving Central received Best 10 of the 25th Secondary School Students’ Book Award in 2014.
王良和
Associate Professor
Department of Literature and Cultural Studies
The Education University of Hong Kong
王良和，原籍浙江紹興，在香港出生。香港浸會大學哲學博士，現任香港教育大學文學及文化學系副教授。曾獲多屆「青年文學獎」、「中文文學創作獎」、「香港中文文學雙年獎」。著有詩集《尚未誕生》；散文集《女馬人與城堡》；小說集《魚咒》。
Dr. WONG Leung Wo is an associate professor in the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Education University of Hong Kong. Dr. Wong, whose ancestral home is in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, was born in Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from Hong Kong Baptist University. He has received multiple awards for his essays, short stories and poetry, including the 1992 Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature (Poetry) for Pomelo Lantern (1991) and the 2002 Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature (Fiction) for Curse of the Fish.
吳明益
Professor
National Dong Hwa University
現任東華大學華文文學系教授。有時寫作、畫圖、攝影、旅行、談論文學，副業是文學研究。
著有散文集《迷蝶誌》、《蝶道》、《家離水邊那麼近》、《浮光》；短篇小說集《本日公休》、《虎爺》、《天橋上的魔術師》，長篇小說《睡眠的航線》、《複眼人》，論文「以書寫解放自然系列」三冊。最新作品為《單車失竊記》。
曾六度獲《中國時報》「開卷」年度十大好書，並獲法國島嶼文學獎小說獎(PRIX DU LIVRE INSULAIRE)、《Time Out Beijing 》「百年來最佳中文小說」、《亞洲週刊》年度十大中文小說、台北國際書展小說大獎、台灣文學獎圖書類長篇小說金典獎、金鼎獎年度最佳圖書等等。作品已售出英、美、法、捷、土、日、韓、印尼、印度、衣索比亞等多國版權。
WU Ming Yi is a writer, artist, professor, and environmental activist. Widely considered the leading writer of his generation, he has won the China Times Open Book Award six times and his works have been translated into nine languages. His novel, The Man with the Compound eyes, is the first contemporary Taiwanese novel published by major English-language publishers worldwide. He teaches literature at National Dong Hwa University. Wu’s works have been translated into English, French, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Czech and Indonesian. Wu’s latest novel The Stolen Bicycle received the 2015 Taiwan Literary Award.
言叔夏
Assistant Professor
Tunghai University, Taiwan
言叔夏，1982年生於台灣高雄。政治大學台灣文學研究所博士。現為東海大學中文系助理教授。曾獲九歌104年度散文獎、林榮三文學獎、全國學生文學獎、國家藝術基金會創作補助等獎項。育有兩貓。著有散文集《白馬走過天亮》。
Dr. YAN Shu Xia is an assistant professor in the Department of Chinese Literature at Tunghai University in Taiwan. She was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. at the Graduate Institute of Taiwanese Literature at National Chengchi University. She received a number of literature awards such as the Chiu Ko Annual Prose Award, the Lin Rung San Literary Award, the National Student Prize for Literature and a NCAF grant. She is now raising two cats. She has published a prose collection entitled White Horse Passing by the Dawn (Baima zouguo tianliang).
