和幽靈一起的香港漫遊 Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits

Cao Shuying, born in Harbin, China, lives in Hong Kong. She is a poet and writer, who received her BA and MA in Chinese Literature from Peking University. She has published several poetry and essay collections, and has received a number of awards, including the Liu Li’an Poetry Prize, China Times’ Literature Prize and the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature.

Chan Lai-kuen graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong with a degree in English, and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (taken in Hong Kong) with a degree in fine art. Her book of poetry Were the Singing Cats (有貓在歌唱) was published in 2010. It was awarded the Recommendation Prize of the 11th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature. She has participated in various literature and art crossover projects in Hong Kong and China.

Audrey Heijns received her MA in Chinese Studies from Leiden University and worked as Assistant Editor at Renditions, Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining the City University of Hong Kong as Research Fellow. She is a translator of Chinese poetry and prose, and editor of VerreTaal, the online database of Chinese literature in Dutch translation.

Desmond Sham (b. 1984) studied Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and has published poems and literary criticisms in journals and newspapers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. His poetry collection dis-poetry received the Recommended Prize in the 11th Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature.

Dr Tam teaches courses on the histories of film art and the creative and media industries in East Asian context. He holds a PhD in the Academy of Film from Hong Kong Baptist University. Before joining Lingnan University, he was the Programme Director of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Creative Writing for Film, Television and New Media, the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University (2016–2021). His research engages with film historiography in the Chinese-language film, Hong Kong film history and film policy, and East Asia's creative and media industry. Currently, he is working on a book project examining the development of Hong Kong’s independent film in the post-handover period. He has served as editor-in-chief of the independent academic publishing house Typesetter Publishing 手民, the online film review platform Cinezen 映畫手民 and the online book review platform Paratext 微批. He also engages in fictional and critical writing. He published his first novel, The Happy Times of Blackeye黑目的快樂時代, in 2011 and published his second collection of short stories, Therefore I sit down and listen to the tales of H City told by Bartender M 於是我坐下，聽調酒師M說關於H城的傳說, in 2017. He co-authored Indiescape Hong Kong: Critical essays and Interviews 香港獨立電影圖景：訪問評論集 (Hong Kong: Typesetter, 2018), a collection of critical essays about local independent films and interviews of independent filmmakers. His other critical writings on film and literature can be found in various local media outlets.