Yuan Yuan, whose ancestral home is in Mianyang , Sichuan, was born in Beijing, grew up in Guizhou, graduated from the Chinese department of Sichuan University, and now lives in Chengdu. She worked in the media for more than 20 years and is a contracted writer of BaJin College and Chengdu College of Arts. Her many short stories have been published in the People’s Literature, October, The Harvest, Youth Literature, The Chinese Writer, The Mountain Flower, Everyone, The West Lake and other magazines and reprinted by many select literarary magazines and collected in several annual anthologies. Her published novelettes include Separated by a Wall, Bachelor Dong’s Progress, and Coincidence. Her novel Pro-revenge won the 2001 Chengdu Annual Best Novel Award and the Sixth Sichuan Literature Award.