Qiao Ye, born in 1972, originally from Xiuwu County Henan province, now serves as the Vice Chair of Henan Province Writers Association, and full committee member of China Writers Association. She has published several novels, such as Confession, Building Demolition and Collection of Bead; as well as novelettes and short stories, such as The Slowest Is Being Alive, Lighter, Get Warm, and Aphasia, most of which have been selected in the annual ranking of Chinese novels. She has won the People’s Literature Prize, the Chinese Literature Award, the Solemn Literature Award, the Beijing Literature Award, the Brocade Literature Prize, the Yu Dafu Novel Prize, the Du Fu Literary Prize, the Novel Monthly Report Hundred Flowers Award and the Chinese Original Novel Annual Award. Her works have been translated into English, Spanish, Russia, Italian, Egyptian, Mexican, Japanese, Korean and other languages.