Huang Yuning, born in 1975, is a writer, literary translator and a literary critic. She has published two novellas and several short stories in quality literature journals, as well as six essay anthologies. She is also the editorial director of Shanghai Translation Publishing House where she has overseen the translation of dozens of English titles into Chinese (including works by Ian McEwan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Henry James and Agatha Christie).