Hai Fan is the pen name of Ang Tiam Huat, a Singaporean writer who entered the rainforest in 1976 as a soldier of the Malayan Communist Party and spent the next thirteen years carrying out guerrilla warfare near the Malaysia-Thai border. His publications include What the Rainforest Tells You, the essay collection The Tumultuous Hills and Jungles, the story collections Wild Pathways and Delicious Hunger, and the novel A Rear View of the Rainforest. He now lives in Singapore.
Jeremy Tiang has translated over thirty books from Chinese, including Zou Jingzhi's Ninth Building, which was long listed for the International Booker Prize. For Tilted Axis Press, he has previously translated Yan Ge's Strange Beasts of China and co-edited Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation with Dr. Kavita Bhanot. He also writes and translates plays. His novel State of Emergency won the Singapore Literature Prize in 2018, and is published in the US by World Editions. He teaches literary translation at Columbia University, and has been translator-in-residence at Princeton and the University of Iowa. Originally from Singapore, he now lives in Flushing, Queens.