Robin Hemley is Director of the Writing Program and Writers’ Centre and Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. He is a multiple prize-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Non/fictionLab of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia and Professor Emeritus of The Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa, USA.
Xu Xi is a prolific novelist and author living in New York and Hong Kong. Her most recent books include the memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (Penguin, 2017) and the novel That Man In Our Lives (C & R Press, 2016). Xu Xi is a former faculty chair at Vermont College’s MFA and established the first low residency MFA program in Asia at the City University of Hong Kong.