Huang Dehai, born in 1977, is a native of Pingdu, Shandong Province and currently lives in Shanghai. He is the deputy editor-in-chief of Sinan Literary Selection, an editor of Shanghai Culture, and a research fellow at the China Modern Literature Museum. He is the author of The Book Has Been Read Late in This Life, The Clay Hand Gift, If You Will Fly but Fail to Fly, Personal Manuscripts, the translator of The Growth of The Small Pepper, and the editor of the anthology The Book is Finished, and so on. He has won the Southern Literary World Award for Outstanding Essays in 2015 and 2015 Youth Critics Award.