Dai Weina is a post-1980s poet and scholar. She holds an MPhil from Oxford University and a PhD from Renmin University of China. She is the author of four poetry collections, including Face Shield and Spirit of Gymnastics, and currently works for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing.

Liang Yujing grew up in China and is currently a PhD candidate at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. He is the Chinese translator of Best New Zealand Poems 2014 (Wai-te-ata Press) and the English translator of Zero Distance: New Poetry from China (Tinfish Press).