Wa, Lan Wa Lan, born in 1965 in the Chinese province of Jiangsu, originally named Yang Qiao, currently resides in Hong Kong. He published his first collection of poems in 1984. In 1986, he began working on a major modern Chinese epic titled Night Watch, which he continues to write to this day. So far, five collections of his poetry have been published in China. His latest work is 7 Arias for the Kitchen. Cornelia Travnicek, born in 1987 in Lower Austria, studied Sinology and Computer Science and works as a researcher, freelance writer, and translator from Chinese. She has received several awards for her own literary works, including a public prize at the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. Her most recent publications include the poetry collection Parablüh. Monologues with Sylvia (2017) and the novel Fairy Dust (2020).