Gloria C.H. Ng was born in Hong Kong though her native place was Enping County, Guangdong Province. She received her BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and MA from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She immigrated to Canada in 80s and returned to Hong Kong in 90s and worked until retired.

She is a frequent and long-term contributor to magazines and literary journals in Hong Kong and Canada, like Breakthrough Magazine, Decision Magazine, Hong Kong Literature Monthly, Ming Pao Monthly, Memo to Learners (Column of HKBU Campus Newspaper), Chinese Canadian Writers, World Journal and Sing Tao Daily. She published three poetry collections: The Clan of Immigrants, Windy Days and Chen Zhongxi’s Short Poems. In recent years, she published her own story Word, Find Me (2017) about how she became a Christian. The Footnote of Life (2018) contained poems and prose. This year, an electronic poetry collection Be Sealed my Heart has been published in Vancouver.

Gloria is the permanent member of Overseas Chinese Women Writers’ Association and Chinese Canadian Writers’ Association, the member of Composers & Authors Society of Hong Kong Limited (CASH) since 80s.

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne was born in Dublin  Author of over thirty books -novels, short stories, memoir and drama her work includes The Dancers Dancing, The Shelter of Neighbours, Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow and Hurlamaboc. Her most recent books are Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir (shortlisted for the Michel Déon Award 2020) and Little Red and Other Stories (Blackstaff 2020), Selected Stories (Blackstaff 2023), Milseog an tSamhraidh (Clo Iar Chonnacht 2023), and Look! It’s a Woman Writer! (Arlen House, 2021). She has been the recipient of many literary awards, including the Irish Pen Award for an Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature, the Butler Award for her novel The Dancers Dancing, a Hennessy Hall of Fame Award, many Oireachtas Awards for her writing in Irish, and the Stuart Parker Award for Drama. Her novel, The Dancers Dancing, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2000. Her books for young people have received the Bisto Book of the Year award, and other awards. In addition to her fiction and drama, she has written many scholarly articles on folklore and literary topics, and is a regular book reviewer for The Irish Times.  In autumn 2020 she held the Burns Scholarship at Boston College. She is a member of Aosdána, and President of the Folklore of Ireland Society.