Sun Dong (b. 1969) is a poet and professor of foreign languages at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. Originally from the northeast of China, she studied at the Qiqihar Normal University, Heilongjiang University, and Nanjing University. In 2003 she was a visiting researcher at the University of Waterloo. She did her postdoctorate at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Her first collection of poetry Cruel Crow, co-authored with Feng Dong, was published in 2011.
Josh Stenberg is a Vancouver-born, Asia-based poet and writer. His fiction and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Asia Literary Review, Vancouver Review, FreeFall, Kartika Review, Assaracus, and The Antigonish Review. He is the translator of two volumes of Chinese short fiction as well as the editor of Irina's Hat: New Short Stories from China.