Guo Shuang, born in Guizhou in 1984, graduated from the Chinese Department of Xiamen University and worked in the Southern Metropolis Daily. Her novels and non-fiction works have been published in such publications as Harvest, Contemporary, Writer and Shanghai Literature, and were anthologised by Fiction Monthly, Sinan Literature Selection and Changjiang Literature, among others. She was awarded the Robert Bosch Foundation “Unbounded Walker” Creation Scholarship (2015), the 7th Chinese World Film Novel Award (2017), and the 2nd Mountain Flower Biennial Award Newcomer Award (2018). Her story collection Getting into the Flame at Noon and her non-fiction title I am Willing to Learn to Tremble are forthcoming.