Moving a Stone (Hong Kong Atlas, 4) Paperback ? February 22, 2022

Born in 1949, Yam Gong (pen name of Lau Yee-ching) is a celebrated poet whose work is respected in both experimental and traditionalist circles in Hong Kong’s literary community. He started working as a laborer at 13 and began to write at 22. A self-taught working-class poet, he has won the Hong Kong Youth Literature Award, the Workers’ Literature Award, and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for his first book, And So You Look at Festival Lights along the Street (1997). He later published an extended edition of this collection called (2010). He has been a featured poet at number of international literary festivals, including the International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong, the Macau Literary Festival, and the Taipei Poetry Festival.

Dorothy Tse is one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed young writers. Her short story collection Snow and Shadow, translated by Nicky Harmon, was longlisted for the 2015 Best Translated Book Award. In 2019, she was one of the four winners of the first Poetry in Translation contest presented by Words Without Borders and the Academy of American Poets. Her story collection, So Black, won the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature in 2005 and A Dictionary of Two Cities, co-authored with Hon Lai-chu, won the 2013 Hong Kong Book Prize. She has also won Taiwan’s Unitas New Fiction Writers’ Award and the Hong Kong Award for Creativity Writing in Chinese. She was a resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program in 2011. A founder of Hong Kong’s preeminent literary magazine, Fleurs des Lettres, she currently teaches creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University.

James Shea is a poet, translator and essayist, whose poetry collection, The Lost Novel, was named a “Book of 2015” by “The Volta,” and favorably reviewed in numerous publications. His earlier book, Star in the Eye, was selected for Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series and named as a "Favorite Book of 2008" by the Chicago Sun-Times. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, The Iowa Review, and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day feature, and his translations have appeared in many publications as well. He teaches at Hong Kong Baptist University and received a 2020 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship to translate Yam Gong’s Moving a Stone.