Nan Xiang is a professor at the School of Literature at Shenzhen University. He is the author of 10 novels including Southern Love, Woman’s Sunflower, Rebellion and Flying and Green Leather Car. He has won the Zhuangzhong Literature Award, the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award, the 10th Shanghai Literature Award, the 6th and 7th Lu Xun Short Story Nomination Award, among other awards.  Several of his short stories were listed in the annual Chinese Fiction Rankings in 2012, 2013, 2015 and 2017.