Xu Dong was born in Yucheng, Shandong Province in 1975 and now lives in Shenzhen. He studied at Shaanxi Normal University, did a postgraduate class at Shenzhen University, and a high-level class of 27 writers at Lu Xun College of Literature. He previously worked for Youth Literature and Selected Novels and is now the editor of Working Literature Weekly. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and his works have appeared in Fiction Selection, Fiction Monthly, Chinese Literature Selection, Changjiang Literature and Art, among others, and have entered the annual national selection. His story collections include The Distance of Ouzhu, Tibet · World, Trains Passed on the Earth, New Life, Imagined Tibet, and the novels Change Tiger, We, Ode to Joy and Old Love and Memories. He was awarded the Best Short Story Award by Sina, the 5th Shenzhen Youth Literature Award, and the 10th Lu Xun Literature Award of Guangdong Province. Some of the works have been translated overseas.