一只羊的政见与见证

Tan Chee Lay was born in Singapore. He is now the Deputy Executive Director of Nanyang Technological University’s Singapore Centre for Chinese Language. He was educated in Singapore, Taiwan, and the UK. Tan’s Chinese publications include 《隔岸观我-- 陈志锐文集》 (Gazing At Myself from the Opposite Shore, critical works and essays, 2000), 《造剑地》 (Where Swords are Forged, poetry, 2002), 《黄色雨衣》 (The Yellow Raincoat, prose, 2006), 《陈志锐散文集》 (Essays by Tan Chee Lay, 2009), 《剑桥诗集》 (Cambridge Poetics, 2010), and 《原始笔记》 (Original Poetics, 2012). Tan has won various prizes in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in Taiwan and Singapore. He was awarded the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council in 2004 and the Singapore Youth Award (Arts and Culture) in 2006 for his literary and pedagogical achievements.

Teng Qian Xi is a writer and translator based in Singapore. Her translations have appeared in Some Kind of Beautiful Signal: Two Lines World Writing in Translation Vol. 17 and Asymptote, among other publications. Her poetry has appeared in Over There: Poems from Singapore and Australia (Ethos Books), Language for a New Century (W. W. Norton), Mudlark, and Softblow. Her poetry collection, They hear salt crystallising (firstfruits publications), was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize in 2012. She majored in Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. She can be found at her blog and on Tumblr.