Fang Wei was born in Binzhou, Shandong and has a Ph.D. in literature. He is a professor of liberal arts in Suzhou University, a visiting scholar of Soochow University in Taiwan, and is a member of the Chinese Writers Association. He has published dozens of stories in many major journals, including Harvest, Flower City, October, TianYa and Contemporary. In 2016, his work Chinese Savage was selected into the 2016 Chinese Fiction Rankings. He is the author of six academic works, including the Wang Xiaobo Biography, and several novels. He won the Zijin Mountain Literature Award winner for his novel, The Age of Heroes.