Huang Yongmei was born in the 1970s and her work has been widely published in leading literary journals including People’s Literature, Flower City, Zhongshan, Harvest and October. Many of her works have appeared in collections such as Fiction Monthly, Selection of Novellas and Selection of Novels. Her novels include A Serious One, Invisibility, Master’s Weiwei and Walking Sweet. She has won the October Literary Award, The People’s Literature Newcomer Award, The Zhongshan Literature Prize, The Lin Jinlan Short Story Award, and the Wang Zengqi Literature Award. Her novels have regularly been listed among the annual rankings of the Chinese Fiction Society.